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Allied to Rhexia, but differing in the clavate-appendaged connective and other minor characters: mostly erect, pilose: lvs. 5-7-nerved, ovate or lanceolate: fls. paniculate, medium size, purple or rose; calyx-lobes 4, narrow, deciduous or persistent; petals 4; stamens 8, unlike, with glabrous filaments: fr. a 4-valved caps.— Species 30-40, Mex. to Peru. They are said to be of easy cult.; see Melastoma and Medinilla for similar plants. Prop. by cuttings. | Allied to Rhexia, but differing in the clavate-appendaged connective and other minor characters: mostly erect, pilose: lvs. 5-7-nerved, ovate or lanceolate: fls. paniculate, medium size, purple or rose; calyx-lobes 4, narrow, deciduous or persistent; petals 4; stamens 8, unlike, with glabrous filaments: fr. a 4-valved caps.— Species 30-40, Mex. to Peru. They are said to be of easy cult.; see Melastoma and Medinilla for similar plants. Prop. by cuttings. | ||
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Read about Monochaetum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Monochaetum (one bristle. referring to the connective). Melastomaceae. Shrubs and subshrubs of tropical America, suitable for glasshouse culture, little grown. Allied to Rhexia, but differing in the clavate-appendaged connective and other minor characters: mostly erect, pilose: lvs. 5-7-nerved, ovate or lanceolate: fls. paniculate, medium size, purple or rose; calyx-lobes 4, narrow, deciduous or persistent; petals 4; stamens 8, unlike, with glabrous filaments: fr. a 4-valved caps.— Species 30-40, Mex. to Peru. They are said to be of easy cult.; see Melastoma and Medinilla for similar plants. Prop. by cuttings. A number of species may be found in the collections of fanciers. Probably the one most likely to be cult., and which is now offered abroad, is M. sericeum, Hort. (probably M. sericeum, Naudin-properly M. Bonplandii, Naudin). There is also a garden var. multiflorum of it, with handsome mauve fls. produced in abundance in spring. M. Bonplandii is shrubby, the branches somewhat hirsute: lvs. ovate, 5-nerved, entire, short-petioled, villous and pubescent beneath: fls. axillary or terminal, violet. S. Amer., in the Amazon region.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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