Medinilla rubicunda

Medinilla rubicunda (Jack) Blume, Flora 14: 512 1831. (Syn: Medinilla emarginata Craib; Medinilla erythrophylla Wall. ex Lindl.; Medinilla fuligineoglandulifera C. Chen; Medinilla hainanensis Merr. & Chun; Medinilla rubicunda var. tibetica C. Chen; Medinilla yunnanensis H.L. Li; Melastoma erythrophylla Wall.; Melastoma rubicundum Jack);

S-Tibet, China (Guangxi, Yunnan, Hainan), Bhutan, India (Darjeeling, Sikkim, Bengal Duars, Assam), Nepal, N-Burma, Java, Thailand, Myanmar [Burma] (Taninthayi) as per Catalogue of Life;

MS Dec.2016/17 Medinilla erythrophylla ? for confirmation : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2)

Location : Sairep, Mizoram
Date : 29-11-2016
Habit Epiphytic undershrub
Habitat : Wild

The identification looks correct. It is M. erythrophylla.

Accepted name of Medinnilla erythrophylla is M.rubicunda (Jack) Blume

MS,Oct.,2021/19 Medinilla sp. for id.: 2 images.
Location : Ailawng

Date : 04-08-2018

Habit : Epiphytic shrub
Habitat : Wild

You have earlier posted it and it is placed at Medinilla rubicunda (Jack) Blume
Is there any other species in this genus over there?
To me appears OK as per ResearchGate & Semantic scholar and POWO specimen.

Any other species reported from there ? If so, any keys?

So there seems to be only one species.
So it is Medinilla rubicunda (Jack) Blume (syn: Medinnilla erythrophylla)

Updates to the eFlora of India regarding Cucurbitaceae and Melastomataceae:
The first update is that Medinilla erythrophylla Wall. ex Lindl. trom the Himalayan foothills is no longer considered a synonym of M. rubicunda, which a Malaysian species.
This has been shown in the dissertation a 2024 dissertation that is freely available online:
Systematics, Biogeography, and Floral Trait Evolution of the Plant Genus, Medinilla (Melastomataceae) John Peter Quakenbush Western Michigan University
I will send you more updates tomorrow. Just now, I am working on the Melastomataceae and Cucurbitaceae for the Flora of Nepal, which of course has much overlap with northern India.

I’d request from Arunachal Pradesh: 8 images.
Have a request here for the attached photographs from Arunachal Pradesh at elev. 1500 msl. Kindly have a look please.

Did you get the genus or species id?

Something between Medinilla pauciflora Hook.fil. ex Triana and Medinilla arunachalica G.D.Pal ???

This is a species of Medinilla

I had earlier suggested the ID something between Medinilla pauciflora Hook.fil. ex Triana and Medinilla arunachalica G.D.Pal.

May I have your opinion please?

I have not studied the north-eastern Mednilla, but I think it could be Medinilla rubicunda or something closely related.

What are the species reported from your area?

I think it is Medinilla rubicunda only as per GBIF specimens (one, two, three) and Plant illustration and as per
https://efloraofindia.com/efi/melastoma-erythrophylla/

References:
Catalogue of Life The Plant List Ver.1.1 Tropicos IPNI GBIF Flora of China Annotated checklist of Flowering plants of Nepal IBIS Flora Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Specimen) FRPS Plant illustrations Forest Plants of Eastern India By Amal Bhusan Chaudhuri (1986) Paxton’s Magazine of Botany (1843) Edwards’ Botanical Register (1838)

Updated on April 6, 2025

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