Melastoma tetramerum tetramerum Hayata
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Rediscovered in 1993
Distribution
Bonin Islands (=Ogasawara Islands), Japan
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Ayu Narita, Ayako Izuno, Yoshiteru Komaki, Takefumi Tanaka, Jin Murata, and Yuji Isagi. (2016). Twenty Novel Polymorphic Microsatellite Primers in the Critically Endangered Melastoma tetramerum var. tetramerum (Melastomataceae). Applications in Plant Sciences 4(9): 1600053.
Ohwi, J. 1978. Revised and enlarged Flora of Japan, 946. Shibundo, Tokyo, Japan.
Shimizu, Y. 1997. Ecology of genus Melastoma in the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands: Present situation of a M. tetramerum community discovered in 1993. Komazawa Geography 33: 49–76 [in Japanese].
Toyoda, T. 2014. The endemic plants of the Bonin Islands, 209–214. Woodspress, Kanagawa, Japan [in Japanese].