Statut pour la Guyane française
Wurdack, J. J., Morley, T. & Renner, S. S. 1993. 99. Melastomataceae. In: Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A. [Ed.]. Flora of the Guianas. Series A: Phanerogams Fascicle 13. Koeltz Scientific Books, Koenigstein: 1-425. [GF = S]

 

Statut pour la Guyane française
Funk, V., Hollowell, T., Berry, P., Kelloff, C. & Alexander, S. N. 2007. Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, 55: 1-580. [GF = P]

 

Statut pour la Guyane française
Véron, S., Rodrigues-Vaz, C., Lebreton, E., Ah-Peng, C., Boullet, V., Chevillotte, H., Gradstein, S., Jérémie, J., Lavocat Bernard, E., Lebouvier, M., Meyer, J., Munzinger, J., Poncy, O., Thouvenot, L., Viscardi, G., Léotard, G., Gargominy, O., Leblond, S., Pignal, M., Rouhan, G., Tercerie, S., Invernon, V. & Muller, S. 2021. An assessment of the endemic spermatophytes, pteridophytes and bryophytes of the French Overseas Territories: towards a better conservation outlook. Biodiversity and Conservation, 30: 2097-2124. [GF = S]

 

Date de publication : Recueil Trav. Bot. Néerl., 32: 207-208. 1935.

Type : "Type: Stahel 457 (B.W. 7073), collected in the Wilhelmina Mountains of Surinam, alt. 1200 m., and deposited in the Botanisch Museum en Herbarium at Utrecht. Stahel 582 (B.W. 7121), collected in the same region, exhibits three smaller plants from 2 to 3.5 dm. tall. In two of them the leaves are broadly obtuse or subcuneate at base. A third specimen is Hulk 342, collected at an altitude of 600 m. on Mt. ”A,” along the Lucie River. Its stems are barely shrubby; its leaves are lanceolate and conspicuously cordate at base. Flowers are absent, but the excellent fruiting hypanthia are 6 mm. long and deeply 8-sulcate." [protologue].