''Pachycentria'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of epiphytic or terrestrial shrubs that grow up to 2.5 m tall, or rarely small trees up to 8 m
tall, indigenous to
Burma
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and ha ...
, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Philippines, Sulawesi, and New Guinea.
Accepted species names, as of April 2021, include:
*''Pachycentria constricta''
*''Pachycentria glauca''
*''Pachycentria hanseniana''
*''Pachycentria microsperma''
*''Pachycentria microstyla''
*''Pachycentria pulverulenta''
*''Pachycentria varingaefolia''
*''Pachycentria vogelkopensis''
References
* ''Pachycentria'' Blume, Flora 14 (1831) 519.
''Revision of Pachycentria (Melastomataceae)'' Gudrun Clausing, BLUMEA 45 (2000) 341–375.
Pachycentria,
Melastomataceae genera
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