Taxonomie : Identité particulièrement douteuse! Initialement identifié comme
Melastoma tetrandrum Sw. 1788 [≡
Tetrazygia tetrandra (Sw.) DC. 1828,
Miconia tetrandra (Sw.) D.Don ex G.Don 1830] par Spreng. (
Syst. Veg. (ed. 16), 2: 305. 1825). Voir aussi Triana (Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 28(1):
99. 1871). D'après Kriebel (
PhytoKeys, 67: [1-]319[-326]. 2016): "This name was treated in Cogniaux’s (1891) monograph as a synonym of
Charianthus coccineus (Rich.) D. Don, and the latter is currently considered as a synonym of
Charianthus alpinus (Sw.) R.A.Howard (Penneys and Judd 2005)."
Type : "in Sancto-Domingo. Bertero.
Mel. tetrandrum Spreng. syst. 2. p. 305. excl. syn. Toto coelo recedit à descr.
Mel. tetradrae Sw. [...] (v. s. comm. à cl. Balbis.)" [protologue].
Hispaniola ["Saint Domingue"], C.L.G. Bertero (HT:
G00310820 [ex hb. DC.]).
