Synonymy

• Basionym
  • Melastoma laxum Desr. in Lam., Encyc. 4: 41(–42). 1797. (as Melastoma laxa) – non Melastoma laxum Rich. ex DC., Prodr. 3: 116. 1828, nom. inval. pro syn.

• Homotypic
  • Pleroma laxum (Desr.) DC., Prodr. 3: 151. 1828.

• Heterotypic
  • Tibouchina cymosa Cogn., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 42(1): 134(–135). 1908.
  • Tibouchina asperipilis S.F.Blake, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 35: 117(–118). 1922.

Primary references

• Blake, S.F. 1922. New plants from South and Central America collected by Wilson Popenoe. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 35: 117–123. BHL Reference page. 

• Cogniaux, A. 1887. Notice sur les Mélastomacées austro-américaines de M. Ed. André. Bulletins de l’Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, série 3, 14: 927–973. BHL Reference page. 

• De Candolle, A.P. 1828. Ordo LXXVI. Melastomaceae. Pp. 99–202 in Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis, sive enumeratio contracta ordinum, generum, specierumque plantarum huc usque cognitarum, juxta methodi naturalis normas digesta, Pars 3, Sistens Calyciflorarum ordines XXVI. Treuttel et Würtz, Parisiis [Paris]. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Macbride, J.F. 1941. Melastomataceae. In Flora of Peru. Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical Series 13(4/1): 249–521. BHL Reference page. 

• Wurdack, J.J. 1980. 138. Melastomataceae. In Harling, G. & Sparre, B. (eds.), Flora of Ecuador, No. 13: 1–406. University of Göteborg & Riksmuseum, Stockholm. ISBN 91-546-0281-5. Reference page. 

Links

• International Plant Names Index. 2019. Tibouchina laxa. Published online. Accessed 15 February 2019.

• GBIF

• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Tibouchina laxa in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed on 2019-02-15.

• Hassler, M. 2019. Tibouchina laxa. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World (2019). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi, J., Penev L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 February 15.

• Tropicos.org 2019. Tibouchina laxa. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 15 February 2019.

• Tropicos.org: Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador: Tibouchina laxa. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on internet. Accessed: 15 February 2019.

• Tropicos.org: Peru Checklist: Tibouchina laxa. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on internet. Accessed: 15 February 2019.