Summary description from Wikipedia:

Melastomataceae in languages:

Chinese

野牡丹科

Czech

Melastomovité

Estonian

roodlehelised

German

Schwarzmundgewächse

Japanese

ノボタン科

Russian

Меластомовые

Swedish

medinillaväxter

Thai

วงศ์ โคลงเคลง

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Parent Taxon

• Myrtales

Sibling Taxa

• Alzateaceae
• Combretaceae
• Crypteroniaceae
• Lythraceae
• Melastomataceae
• Myrtaceae
• Onagraceae
• Penaeaceae
• Vochysiaceae

Child Taxa

• Anaheterotis
• Argyrella
• Aschistanthera
• Boerlagea
• Cailliella
• Catanthera
• Centradeniastrum
• Creochiton
• Cyphotheca
• Dicellandra
• Dinophora
• Diplarpea
• Dissotidendron
• Dupineta
• Feliciadamia
• Guyonia
• Kendrickia
• Kerriothyrsus
• Killipia
• Kirkbridea
• Loricalepis
• Macrolenes
• Mallophyton
• Melastomastrum
• Melastomatoideae
• Neodriessenia
• Nerophila
• Olisbeoideae
• Plagiopetalum
• Poikilogyne
• Poilannammia
• Preussiella
• Rousseauxia
• Scorpiothyrsus
• Sporoxeia
• Stanmarkia
• Stussenia
• Styrophyton
• Tashiroea
• Tigridiopalma
• Vietsenia

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