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''Miconia albicans'' is a species of
shrub A shrub or bush is a small to medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees by their multiple ...
in the family
Melastomataceae Melastomataceae () is a family of dicotyledonous flowering plants found mostly in the tropics (two-thirds of the genera are from the New World tropics) comprising c. 175 genera and c. 5115 known species. Melastomes are annual or perennial herbs ...
. It is known as canela-de-velho in
Brazilian Portuguese Brazilian Portuguese (; ; also known as pt-BR) is the set of Variety (linguistics), varieties of Portuguese language native to Brazil. It is spoken by almost all of the 203 million inhabitants of Brazil and widely across the Brazilian diaspora ...
. It is native to
North North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. ''North'' is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating Direction (geometry), direction or geography. Etymology T ...
and
South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...
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albicans Flora of Peru Flora of Mexico Flora of Belize Flora of Panama Flora of Nicaragua Flora of Brazil Flora of Bolivia Flora of Jamaica Flora of Cuba Flora of Paraguay Flora of Colombia Flora of Costa Rica Flora of Ecuador Flora of French Guiana Flora of Guatemala Flora of Guyana Flora of Honduras Flora of El Salvador Flora of Venezuela Flora of Suriname {{melastomataceae-stub