Memecylon cantleyi
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| Memecylon cantleyi | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Melastomataceae |
| Genus: | Memecylon |
| Species: | M. cantleyi |
| Binomial name | |
| Memecylon cantleyi | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Memecylon cantleyi is a shrub or tree species in the Melastomataceae family. The flowers are white and vivid blue. The plant is native to an area from Borneo to Sumatra to Thailand. A name given to the tree in Malaysia, nipis kulit, translates as "calamondin bark".
This species has been identified by molecular phylogenetics as being in a clade with Memecylon caeruleum, which grows from New Guinea through Southeast Asia to Tibet, Zhōngguó/China.[2] As well these two species belong to a deeper Malesian/Southeast Asian clade that includes Memecylon lilacinum, Memecylon pauciflorum, Memecylon plebujum, and Memecylon scutellatum.
The species was named by the English botanist, geologist and naturalist Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855-1956), in 1918.[3] Ridley lived for 20 years in Singapore, and worked extensively on the botany of then British Malaya. He described the plant in the Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (Singapore).
Description
Distribution
The species is native to an area of Southeast Asia, from Borneo to Thailand.[1] Countries and regions that it grows in are: Indonesia (Kalimantan, Sumatera {Simeulue});[4] Malaysia (Sabah, Sarawak, Peninsular Malaysia); Brunei Darussalam; Singapore; Thailand.