| Name | Melastoma malabathricum Linnaeus |
| Authorship | Linnaeus |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Melastoma |
| Contains | Melastoma malabathricum subsp. normale (D. Don) Karst. Meyer |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:570989-1 |
| Citation | 1753 Sp. Pl. 1: 390. |
| Holdings | 436 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Melastoma malabathricum Linnaeus |
| Identification made in | [no date] (435), 2002 (1) |