What is Melastomataceae?
{{Taxobox | name = Melastomataceae | image = Tibouchina semidecandra.jpg | image_caption = ''Tibouchina semidecandra'' at Strybing Arboretum, San Francisco | regnum = [[Plant]]ae | unranked_divisio = [[Angiosperms]] | unranked_classis = [[Eudicots]] | unranked_ordo = [[Rosids]] | ordo = [[Myrtales]] | familia = '''Melastomataceae''' | familia_authority = [[Antoine Laurent de Jussieu|Juss.]] | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See text. }} '''''Melastomataceae''''' is a large family in the order ''[[Myrtales]]''. There are about 200 [[genera]] and 4,000 [[species]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/melastomat.htm |title=Flowering Plant Families, UH Botany |first= |last= |work=botany.hawaii.edu |year=2005 |accessdate=5 July 2011}}</ref> It is the eighth largest family in the basal [[Angiosperms]]. Plants in the family are called Melastomes. ==References== {{reflist}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Myrtales]] [[Category:Plant families]]