Are Melastoma and Barringtonia both types of flowers?
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Melastoma Melastoma is a genus in the family Melastomataceae. It has about 50 species distributed around Southeast Asia, India, and Australia. It is undergoing taxonomic revision. Many species have been planted around the world for the aesthetic value of their bright purple flowers. Several have the capacity to become weedy, and have become noxious weeds in Hawaii and other areas.
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Barringtonia Barringtonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lecythidaceae first described as a genus with this name in 1775. It is native to Africa, southern Asia, Australia, and various islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The genus name commemorates Daines Barrington.
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Topobea induta Topobea induta is a species of plant in the Melastomataceae family. It is endemic to Ecuador.
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Melaleuca micromera Melaleuca micromera, commonly known as wattle honey-myrtle is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to a small area in the south-west of Western Australia. It a rare species with unusual foliage and profuse, small yellow flowerheads making it a plant that is suitable for cultivation, if only to protect it from extinction.
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Carionia Carionia is a genus of plants in the family Melastomataceae.
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Banksia attenuata Banksia attenuata, commonly known as the candlestick banksia, slender banksia or biara as known by the Noongar aboriginal people, is a species of plant in the family Proteaceae. Commonly a tree, it reaches 10 m high, but is often a shrub in drier areas 0.4 to high. It has long narrow serrated leaves and bright yellow inflorescences, or flower spikes, held above the foliage, which appear in spring and summer. The flower spikes age to grey and swell with the development of the woody follicles. It is found across much of the southwest of Western Australia, from north of Kalbarri National Park down to Cape Leeuwin and across to Fitzgerald River National Park.
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Sonerila The genus Sonerila Roxb. belongs to family Melastomaceae. This genus is characterized by presence of three petals (along with the genera "Stussenia" & "Lithobium") as opposed to five in the other members of the family. Most members of the genus prefer growing in shady habitats. It is a large genus including about 175 species.
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Constancea Constancea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the aster family containing the single species Constancea nevinii (formerly "Eriophyllum nevinii"), which is known by the common name Nevin's woolly sunflower. It is endemic to three of the Channel Islands of California, where it grows in coastal scrub habitat. This is a small shrub or subshrub generally growing up to one or 1.5 meters tall, and taller when in erect form, with a branching, woolly stem. The whitish, woolly oval leaves may be up to 20 centimeters long and are divided into many narrow lobes with edges curled under. The inflorescence is a cluster of 10 to 50 or more small flower heads, each on a short peduncle. The flower head has a center of hairy, glandular, star-shaped yellow disc florets and a fringe of four to nine yellow ray florets each about 2 millimeters long. The fruit is an achene a few millimeters long with a small pappus at the tip.
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Huilaea Huilaea is a genus of plant in family Melastomataceae.
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Astronidium inflatum Astronidium inflatum is a species of plant in the Melastomataceae family. It is endemic to Fiji.
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Melaleuca marginata Melaleuca marginata is a shrub in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is distinguished by its prickly leaves and its flowers occurring in long sections of the branches. From 1922 to 2011 was known as "Melaleuca coronicarpa".
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Mango-pine Mango-pine is a common name for several trees of the genus "Barringtonia", which are flowering plants unrelated to actual pines, and may refer to:
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Brugmansia Brugmansia is a genus of seven species of flowering plants in the family Solanaceae. They are woody trees or shrubs, with pendulous flowers, and have no spines on their fruit. Their large, fragrant flowers give them their common name of angel's trumpets, a name sometimes used for the closely related genus "Datura". (Datura differs from Brugmansia in that they are herbaceous bushes, with erect rather than pendulous flowers - and most have spines on their fruit).
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Miconia hirsutivena Miconia hirsutivena is a species of plant in the Melastomataceae family. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
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Memecylon leucanthum Memecylon leucanthum is a species of plant in the Melastomataceae family. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.
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Miconia tephrodes Miconia tephrodes is a species of plant in the Melastomataceae family. It is endemic to Ecuador.
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Mertensia Mertensia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae. They are perennial herbaceous plants with blue or sometimes white flowers that open from pink-tinged buds. Such a change in flower color is common in Boraginaceae and is caused by an increase of pH in the flower tissue. "Mertensia" is one of several plants that are commonly called "bluebell". In spite of their common name, the flowers are usually salverform (trumpet-shaped) rather than campanulate (bell-shaped).
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Barringtonia sarcostachys Barringtonia sarcostachys grows as a tree up to 40 m tall, with a trunk diameter of up to 50 cm . The bark is brown, reddish brown, grey, greenish brown or blackish. The fruits are ovoid to roundish, up to 11 cm long. The specific epithet "sarcostachys" is from the Greek meaning "fleshy spike", referring to the inflorescence. Its habitat is lowland mixed dipterocarp forest from sea-level to 300 m altitude. "B. sarcostachys" is found in Sumatra and Borneo.
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Vesselowskya venusta Vesselowskya venusta is a rainforest plant of restricted distribution from eastern New South Wales, Australia. The common name is Barrington Tops Marara. The species name "venusta" is from the Latin, meaning "charming". Referring to the beauty of the long flower stems. The genus is named after the Russian botanist E. Vesselowsky.
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Miconia lachnoclada Miconia lachnoclada is a species of plant in the Melastomataceae family. It is endemic to Peru.
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Beaufortia incana Beaufortia incana, commonly known as grey-leaved beaufortia is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, compact shrub with crowded leaves which appear whitish due to their covering of fine, soft hairs on both surfaces. It has almost spherical heads of red flowers in spring.
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Melaleuca hnatiukii Melaleuca hnatiukii is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a medium to large shrub with arching branches, prickly tipped leaves and creamy-white heads of flowers in spring or early summer.