melastomatales

English translation: melastome family OR: Melastomaceae OR: melastomes

03:22 Jul 5, 2011
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Science - Geography / plantas
Spanish term or phrase: melastomatales
donde varias especies de las familias melastomatatales y clusiales llegan a ser completamente dominantes ocupando un area considerable.
hooligan
English translation:melastome family OR: Melastomaceae OR: melastomes
Explanation:
As I pointed out above, your term in Spanish is the name of the order, not the family. However, "melastomatales" is a synonym and not widely used. It's better to use the family name. You can use any of the three forms that I cite, but you can't say *Melastomaceae family, which is like saying 'pizza pie'.

MELASTOMATACEAE – MELASTOME FAMILY
www.florabymax.net/.../Family.../...
Maryland Meadowbeauty; Rhexia mariana L. Meadow Beauty [Handsome Harry]; Rhexia virginica L. MELASTOMATACEAE – MELASTOME FAMILY ...
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5 +2melastome family OR: Melastomaceae OR: melastomes
Muriel Vasconcellos
1cloud forest Melastome herbs, shrubs or small trees (Melastomataceae)
andres-larsen


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cloud forest Melastome herbs, shrubs or small trees (Melastomataceae)


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cloud forest Melastome herbs, shrubs or small trees (Melastomataceae)

sources:

The Melastomataceae - Flowering Plant Families, UH Botany -
www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/melastomat.htm -
Botanical characteristics of this family with descriptions and photographs of a number of individual species.

Melastomataceae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melastomataceae -
The family Melastomataceae (alternatively Melastomaceae) is a taxon of ...

Taxonomy of Angiosperms -
books.google.com/books?isbn=8188237167...
A.V.S.S. Sambamurty - 2005 - Science - 908 pages
Family: Melastomataceae (Melastome) Herbs, shrubs, trees, or lianas, sometimes as epiphytes, commonly with a 4-sided stem. Leaves opposite (rarely alternate ...

Riodinidae Plant Families at Animal Corner -
www.animalcorner.co.uk/insects/.../riodinidaeplant.html - Melastomes are annual or perennial herbs, shrubs, or small trees). Myrtaceae (a family of dicotyledon plants, placed within the order Myrtales and include ...

Chromagraph Botanicals - Home > Plantae > Angiosperms > Dicots -
www.chromagraph.org.uk/cpg14x/index.php?cat=6 -
Mainly herbs, but some shrubs and trees. Includes well-known plants such as Lobelias, .... importance forming the backbone of many northern temperate forests and woodland. .... Melastomes are annual or perennial herbs, shrubs, or small trees. ..... They consist mainly of a cloud of Stamens with fused petals, ...

[PDF] Seed and Seedling Ecology of Neotropical Melastomataceae Aaron M ... -
www.umsl.edu/~loiselleb/data/Ellisonetal_Ecology1993.pdf
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de AM Ellison - 1993 - Citado por 82 - Artículos relacionados
1 Jan 2008 – and seedlings of a number of melastome species in and ...... components of fruit display in understory trees and shrubs. ..... Resource Division in an Understory Herb Community: Responses to Temporal and .... Natural Disturbance and Gap-Phase Regeneration in a Wind-Exposed Tropical Cloud Forest ...


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melastome family OR: Melastomaceae OR: melastomes


Explanation:
As I pointed out above, your term in Spanish is the name of the order, not the family. However, "melastomatales" is a synonym and not widely used. It's better to use the family name. You can use any of the three forms that I cite, but you can't say *Melastomaceae family, which is like saying 'pizza pie'.

MELASTOMATACEAE – MELASTOME FAMILY
www.florabymax.net/.../Family.../...
Maryland Meadowbeauty; Rhexia mariana L. Meadow Beauty [Handsome Harry]; Rhexia virginica L. MELASTOMATACEAE – MELASTOME FAMILY ...

Muriel Vasconcellos
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agree  Charles Davis: My choice, in this context, would be "melastome family", with "Melastomataceae" (NB not "Melastomaceae") following in parentheses. I believe the order is called "Myrtales" (Reichenbach).
13 mins
  -> I agree with your comment. I see that you're right about 'Melastomataceae', though the site I consulted said the opposite.

agree  eski
6 hrs
  -> Thanks, eski!
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