Medinilla venosa (Melastomataceae) holdtight

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Species description or overview

Taxonomy & nomenclature

Medinilla venosa information from the Smithsonian's Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Information about Medinilla venosa--including nomenclature and synonymy, and status and distribution in Hawaii--is provided by the "Flora of the Hawaiian Islands" website of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Links from this page include descriptive information about the species, as well as worldwide distributional information and general information about the genus.

Medinilla venosa information from ITIS
The Integrated Taxonomic Information System ITIS provides authoritative taxonomic information on Medinilla venosa, as well as other plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.

IPNI nomenclature info for Medinilla venosa
Nomenclatural information about Medinilla venosa is provided by The International Plant Names Index (IPNI).

Impacts

Images

Medinilla venosa information from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Information about Medinilla venosa in Hawaii is available from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands.

Medinilla venosa images from PIER
Images of Medinilla venosa provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).

Distribution

Medinilla venosa information from the Smithsonian's Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Information about Medinilla venosa--including nomenclature and synonymy, and status and distribution in Hawaii--is provided by the "Flora of the Hawaiian Islands" website of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Links from this page include descriptive information about the species, as well as worldwide distributional information and general information about the genus.

Invasive species in the Pacific: A technical review and draft regional strategy (2000) 
The status of invasive plants, vertebrates, arthropods, molluscs, and crustaceans, and options for a regional invasive species strategy for the South Pacific are presented in this series of articles from the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, 2000.

Cited as invasive

Full-text articles

Proceedings of workshop on biological control of native ecosystems in Hawaii
Smith, Clifford W., Julie Denslow, and Stephen Hight (eds.) . 2002. Proceedings of workshop on biological control of native ecosystems in Hawaii. Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit (University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Botany) Technical Report 129. 122 pages.

Biological control potential of Miconia calvescens using three fungal pathogens
Killgore, Eloise M. 2002. Biological control potential of Miconia calvescens using three fungal pathogens. pp. 45-52 in Smith, Clifford W., Julie Denslow, and Stephen Hight (eds). 2002. Proceedings of workshop on biological control of native ecosystems in Hawaii. Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit (University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Botany) Technical Report 129. 122 pages. from http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/techr/129.pdf accessed 16 March 2008.

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