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Tetrazygia bicolor
(Melastomataceae)

Florida clover ash

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Tetrazygia bicolor is native to Cuba, Bahamas, and southern Florida. 


Species description or overview

Tetrazygia bicolor information from CTAHR (Motooka et al.) View info about Adobe Acrobat PDF format
Information about Tetrazygia bicolor from "Weeds of Hawaii's pastures and natural areas: an identification and management guide" (Motooka et al. 2003) is provided by the University of Hawaii's College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR).

Tetrazygia bicolor information from PIER
Information on Tetrazygia bicolor as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).


Taxonomy & nomenclature

GRIN nomenclature info for Tetrazygia bicolor
Nomenclatural information about Tetrazygia bicolor is provided by USDA/ARS/NGRP/GRIN.

Tetrazygia bicolor information from the Smithsonian's Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Information about Tetrazygia bicolor--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.

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

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


Impacts

Tetrazygia bicolor (Melastomataceae): species information from GCW
Information on Tetrazygia bicolor as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).


Risk assessments

Tetrazygia bicolor weed risk assessment for Hawaii-Pacific
Results of a weed risk assessment for Tetrazygia bicolor for the Hawaii-Pacific region are presented by the Hawaii-Pacific Weed Risk Assessment team.


Control methods

Tetrazygia bicolor information from CTAHR (Motooka et al.) View info about Adobe Acrobat PDF format
Information about Tetrazygia bicolor from "Weeds of Hawaii's pastures and natural areas: an identification and management guide" (Motooka et al. 2003) is provided by the University of Hawaii's College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR).


Images

Images of Tetrazygia bicolor (Melastomataceae) (tetrazygia)
Links to high-resolution free images of Tetrazygia bicolor (Melastomataceae) (tetrazygia) by Forest & Kim Starr (USGS) are available here.

Tetrazygia bicolor information from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Information about Tetrazygia bicolor in Hawaii is available from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands.

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


Distribution

Tetrazygia bicolor information from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Information about Tetrazygia bicolor in Hawaii is available from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands.

Tetrazygia bicolor information from the Smithsonian's Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Information about Tetrazygia bicolor--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.


Books

Weeds of Hawaii's Pastures and Natural Areas: An Identification and Management Guide
Motooka, Philip, Luisa Castro, Duane Nelson, Guy Nagai, and Lincoln Ching. 2003. Weeds of Hawaii's Pastures and Natural Areas: An Identification and Management Guide. College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (University of Hawaii--Manoa), Honolulu. 184 pp. color illus. ISBN: 1-929325-14-2.


Full-text articles

Weeds of Hawaii's Pastures and Natural Areas: An Identification and Management Guide
Motooka, Philip, Luisa Castro, Duane Nelson, Guy Nagai, and Lincoln Ching. 2003. Weeds of Hawaii's Pastures and Natural Areas: An Identification and Management Guide. College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (University of Hawaii--Manoa), Honolulu. 184 pp. color illus. ISBN: 1-929325-14-2.

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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