Tibouchina lepidota (Bonpl.) Baill.

Det. F. A. Michelangeli XII
The New York Botanical Garden
Tibouchina
Melastomataceae
Ecuador Province:Napo Nearest town: Sumaco
0.40' S,77.34' W Alt.: 1300 m
Locality: Between Sumaco Forest Reserve and Sumaco, N of Loreto Road.
Habitat: Weedy roadside next to milpa and disturbed forest remnants. Soils: clay-loam
Associated species:
Phenology: flowering, at anthesis
Height:
Other notes: Roadside. Shrub, corollas bright magenta.
Collected by: J.P. Janovec, A.K. Neill, W. Quizhpe, I. Toborg
#1324 12.ix.2000
Research funded by the Montgomery Botanical Center, Miami FL
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