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Osbeckia nepalensis - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 9/2009 © Jingxin Liu

Osbeckia nepalensis - Flower, side view - Click to enlarge!

Flower, side view; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 9/2009 © Jingxin Liu

Osbeckia nepalensis - Leaf insertion - Click to enlarge!

Leaf insertion; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 9/2009 © Jingxin Liu

Dataset

Identifier: 1478
Date of entry: 14.12.2010
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

Mandarin: 蚂蚁花 (ma yi hua)

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2629)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2532)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2141)

      Order: Myrtales (76)

        Family: Melastomataceae (16)(family description)

          Genus: Osbeckia (2)

            Epithet: nepalensis Hooker (1)

              Variety: nepalensis Hooker

nepalensis => from or of Nepal

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habit: shrub

Flower colour: pink

External links

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