VASCULAR PLANT FAMILIES and GENERA
List of Genera in MELASTOMATACEAE
Kib = Kibessioideae; Mel-Ast = Melastomatoideae-Astronieae, Mel-Ber = -Bertolonieae, Mel-Bla = -Blakeeae, Mel-Cyph = -Cyphostyleae, Mel-Din = -Dinophoreae, Mel-Diss = -Dissochaeteae, Mel-Eri = -Eriocnemeae, Mel-Fel = -Feliciadamieae, Mel-Hen = -Henrietteeae, Mel-Lav = -Lavoisiereae, Mel-Lit = -Lithobieae, Mel-Mar = -Marcetieae, Mel-Mel = -Melastomateae, Mel-Mer = -Merianeae, Mel-Mic = -Miconieae, Mel-Pyr = -Pyramieae, Mel-Rhe = -Rhexieae, Mel-Rup = -Rupestreeae, Mel-Son = -Sonerileae, Mel-Sta = -Stanmarkieae, Mel-Tri = -Trioleneae; Oli = Olisbeoideae
Bold, accepted name; italics, synonym.
Acanthella Bentham & J. D. Hooker - Mel-Mar
Aciotis D. Don - Mel-Mar
Acisanthera P. Browne - Mel-Mar
Acrovena
Adamea Jacques-Félix = Feliciadamia Bullock - Mel-Fel
Adelobotrys de Candolle - Mel-Mer
Aeipetalum Turczanowicz = Cambessedesia de Candolle - Mel-Pyr
Afzeliella Gilg = Guyonia Naudin - Mel-Mel
Allomaieta Gleason - Mel-Cyph
Allomorphia Blume - Mel-Son
Alloneuron Pilger - Mel-Cyph
Almedanthus Veranso-Libalah & R. D. Stone - Mel-Mel
Amaraboya Linden = Blakea P. Browne - Mel-Bla
Amphiblemma Naudin - Mel-Son
Amphitoma
Amphorocalyx Baker
Anaectocalyx Bentham & J. D. Hooker = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Anaheterotis Veranso-Libalah & G. Kadereit - Mel-Mel
Andesanthus P. J. F. Guimarães & Michelangeli - Mel-Mel
Anerincleistus Korthals - Mel-Son
Anisocentrum Turczanowicz = Acisanthera P. Browne - Mel-Mar
Anplectrum A. Gray Dissochaeta Blume - Mel-Diss
Antherotoma Bentham & J. D. Hooker - Mel-Mel
Apatitia Desvaux = Bellucia Rafinesque - Mel-Hen
Aplectrum Blume = Diplectria (Blume) Reichenbach - Mel-Diss
Appendicularia de Candolle - Mel
Apteuxis Griffith = Pternandra Jack - Kib
Argyrella Naudin - Mel
Arthrostemma D. Don - Mel-Rhe
Aschistanthera C. Hansen - Mel-Son
Astrocalyx Merrill - Mel-Ast
Astronia Blume - Mel-Ast
Astronidium A. Gray - Mel-Ast
Axinaea Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mer
Axinanthera Karsten = Bellucia Rafinesque - Mel-Hen
Backeria Bakhuisen f. = Dissochaeta Blume - Mel-Diss
Barthea J. D. Hooker - Mel-Son
Beccarianthus Cogniaux - Mel-Ast
Behuria Chamisso = Huberia de Candolle - Mel-Pyr
Bellucia Rafinesque - Mel-Hen
Benevidesia Saldanha & Cogniaux = Huberia de Candolle - Mel-Pyr
Benna van der Burgt & Veranso-Libalah - Mel-Son
Bertolonia Raddi - Mel-Ber
Bisglaziovia
Blakea P. Browne - Mel-Bla
Blastus Loureiro - Mel-Son
Boerlagea Cogniaux - Mel-Son
Boyania Wurdack - Mel-Son
Brachyotum (de Candolle) Triana - Mel-Mel
Brachypremna Gleason = Appendicularia de Candolle -Mel
Brasilianthus Almeida & Michelangeli - Mel-Mar
Bredia Blume - Mel-Son
Brittenia Cogniaux - Mel-Son
Bucquetia de Candolle - Mel-Mel
Cailliella Jacques-Félix - Mel-Mel
Calvoa J. D. Hooker - Mel-Son
Calycogonium de Candolle = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Cambessedesia de Candolle - Mel-Pyr
Campimia C. Hansen - Mel-Son
Carionia Naudin = Medinilla de Candolle - Mel-Son
Cassebeeria Kuntze = Sonerila Roxburgh - Mel-Son
Castratella Naudin - Mel-Mel
Catanthera F. Mueller - Mel-Son
Catocoryne J. D. Hooker = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Catonia P. Browne = ?
Centradenia D. Don - Mel-Mel
Centradeniastrum Cogniaux - Mel-Sta
Centronia D. Don - Mel-Mer
Cephalomedinilla Merrill = Medinilla de Candolle - Mel-Son
Chaeonopleura de Candolle = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Chaetogastra de Candolle - Mel-Mel
Chaetolepis (de Candolle) Miquel - Mel-Mel
Chaetostoma de Candolle = Microlicia D. Don - Mel-Lav
Chalybea Naudin - Mel-Bla
Charianthus D. Don = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Chiehchenii - Mel-Son
Cincinnobotrys Gilg - Mel-Son
Clidemia D. Don = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Comolia de Candolle - Mel-Mar
Comoliopsis Wurdack - Mel-Mar
Conostegia D. Don = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Copodesma
Creaghiella
Cremanium D. Don = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Creochiton Blume - Mel-Diss
Cryptophysa
Cyanandrium Stapf - Mel-Son
Cyphostyla Gleason = Allomaieta Gleason - Mel-Cyph
Cyphotheca Diels - Mel-Son
Dactyliota Blume = Medinilla de Candolle - Mel-Son
Davya de Candolle = Meriania Swartz - Mel-Mer
Dalenia Korthals - Mel-Diss
Derosiphia Rafinesque - Mel-Mel
Desmoscelis Naudin - Mel-Mel
Dicellandra J. D. Hooker - Mel-Son
Dicerospermum
Dichaetandra Naudin = Acisanthera P. Browne - Mel-Mar
Diclemia Naudin = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Dicrananthera C. Presl - Mel-Mel
Diolena Naudin = Triolena Naudin - Mel-Tri
Dinophora Bentham = Mel-Din
Dionycha
Dionychastrum A. Fernandes & R. Fernandes - Mel-Mel
Diplarpea Bentham & J. D. Hooker = Triolena Naudin - Mel-Tri
Diplectria (Blume) Reichenbach - Mel-Diss
Diplogenea Lindley = Medinilla de Candolle - Mel-Son
Diplostegium D. Don = Pleroma D. Don - Mel-Mel
Dissochaeta Blume - Mel-Diss
Dissotidendron (A. Fernandes & R. Fernandes) Veranso-Libalah & G. Kadereit - Mel-Mel
Dissotis Bentham - Mel-Mel
Dolichoura Brade = Huberia de Candolle - Mel-Pyr
Driessenia Korthals - Mel-Son
Dupineta (Smith) Rafinesque - Mel-Mel
Eisocreochiton Quisumbung & Merrill = Creochiton Blume - Mel-Diss
Ekmaniocharis Urban = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Eleotis Veranso-Libalah & R. D. Stone - Mel-Mel
Enaulophyton van Steenis - Mel-Son
Enchosanthera Guillaumin = Creochiton Blume - Mel-Diss
Eriocnema Naudin - Mel-Eri
Ernestia de Candolle - Mel-Mar
Erpetina Naudin = Medinilla de Candolle - Mel-Son
Ewyckia Blume = Pternandra Jack - Kib
Farringtonia Gleason = Siphanthera de Candolle - Mel-Mar
Feliciadamia Bullock - Mel-Fel
Feliciotis Veranso-Libalah & G. Kadereit - Mel-Mel
Fothergilla Aublet = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Fordiophyton Stapf - Mel-Son
Fritzschia Chamisso - Mel-Mar
Graffenrieda de Candolle - Mel-Mer
Gravesia Naudin - Mel-Son
Grischowia H. Karsten = Monochaetum (de Candolle) Naudin - Mel-Mel
Guyonia Naudin - Mel-Mel
Haplodesmium Naudin = Chaetolepis (de Candolle) Miquel - Mel-Mel
Hartigia Miquel = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Hederella Stapf = Catanthera F. Muell - Mel-Diss
Hedusa Rafinesque = Dissotis Bentham - Mel-Mel
Heeria Schlechtendal = Heterocentron Hooker & Arnott - Mel-Mel
Henriettea de Candolle - Mel-Hen
Henriettella Naudin = Henriettea de Candolle - Mel-Hen
Hephestionia Naudin = Chaetogastra de Candolle - Mel-Mel
Heteroblemma (Blume) Cáncara-Leret et al. - Mel-Son
Heterocentron Hooker & Arnott - Mel-Mel
Heteroneuron Bentham & J. D. Hooker = Bellucia Rafinesque - Mel-Hen
Heterotis Bentham - Mel-Mel
Heterotrichum M. Bieberstein = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Homonoma Bello = Nepsera Naudin - Mel-Mar
Huberia de Candolle - Mel-Pyr
Huilaea Wurdack = Chalybea Naudin - Mel-Bla
Hylocharis
Hypenanthe Blume = Medinilla de Candolle - Mel-Son
Icaria J. F. Macbride = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Itataia Ule = Pleroma D. Don - Mel-Mel
Jucunda Chamisso = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Kadalia Rafinesque - see Veranso-Libalah et al. (2017)
Kendrickia J. D. Hooker - Mel-Son
Kerriothyrsus C. Hansen - Mel-Son
Kibessia de Candolle = Pternandra Jack - Kib
Killipia Gleason = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Kirkbridea Wurdack - Mel-Hen
Lasiandra de Candolle = Pleroma D. Don - Mel-Mel
Lavoisiera de Candolle = Microlicia D. Don - Mel-Lav
Leandra Raddi = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Leiostegia Bentham - Mel-Mar
Leonicenia Scopoli = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Lieutautia Buc'hoz = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Lijndenia Zollinger & Moritzi - Oli
Lithobium Bongard - Mel-Lit
Llewelynia Pittier = Henriettea de Candolle - Mel-Hen
Loevigia H. Karsten & Triana = Monochaetum (de Candolle) Naudin - Mel-Mel
Loreya de Candolle = Bellucia Rafinesque - Mel-Hen
Loricalepis Brade - Mel-Mel
Macairea de Candolle - Mel-Mar
Macrocentrum
Macrolenes Naudin - Mel-Diss
Macroplacis Blume = Pternandra Jack - Kib
Maguireanthus Wurdack
Maieta Aublet = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Mallophyton
Marcetia de Candolle - Mel-Mar
Marumia Blume = Macrolenes Naudin - Mel-Diss
Mecranium J. D. Hooker = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Medinilla de Candolle - Mel-Son
Medinillaea Post & Kunze - Medinilla de Candolle - Mel-Son
Medinillopsis Cogniaux = Medinilla de Candolle - Mel-Son
Meiandra Markgraf = Alloneuron Pilger - Mel-Cyph
Meisneria de Candolle = Siphanthera de Candolle - Mel-Mar
Melastoma L. - Mel-Mel
Melastomastrum Naudin - Mel-Mel
Memecylon L. - Oli
Menendezia
Meriania Swartz - Mel-Mer
Merianthera Kuhlmann - Mel-Pyr
Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Miconiastrum Naudin = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Micranthella Naudin = Chaetogastra de Candolle - Mel-Mel
Microlepis (de Candolle) Miquel = Pleroma D. Don - Mel-Mel
Microlicia D. Don - Mel-Lav
Microphysca Naudin = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Miocarpus Naudin = Noterophila Martius - Mel-Mar
Mommsenia
Monochaetum (de Candolle) Naudin - Mel-Mel
Monolena Bentham & J. D. Hooker - Mel-Tri
Mouriri Aublet - Oli
Mouriroidea Aublet - Oli
Myrianthemum Gilg = - Mel-Diss
Myriaspora de Candolle = Bellucia Rafinesque - Mel-Hen
Myrmidone Martius = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Neblinanthera Wurdack - Mel-Son
Necramium Britton = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Neodissochaeta Bakhuisen f. = Dissochaeta Blume - Mel-Diss
Neodriessenia M. P. Nayar - Mel-Son
Neopetalonema Brenan = Gravesia Naudin - Mel-Son
Neophyllagathis - Mel-Son
Nepsera Naudin - Mel-Mar
Nerophila Naudin - Mel-Mel
Noterophila Martius - Mel-Mar
Nothodissotis Veranso-Libalah & G. Kadereit - Mel-Mel
Ochthephilus Wurdack - Mel-Mer
Ochthocharis Blume = Mel-Din
Octomeris Naudin = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Octopleura Grisebach = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Omphalopus Naudin = Dissochaeta Blume - Mel-Diss
Onoctonia Naudin = Noterophila Martius - Mel-Mar
Opisthocentra J. D. Hooker - Mel-Son
Oreocosmus Naudin = Chaetogastra de Candolle - Mel-Mel
Oritrephes Ridley = Anerincleistus Korthals - Mel-Son
Orthogoneuron Gilg = Gravesia Naudin - Mel-Son
Osbeckia L. - Mel-Mel
Osbeckiastrum Naudin = Dissotis Bentham - Mel-Mel
Ossaea de Candolle = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Otanthera Blume - Mel-Mel
Oxisma Rafinesque = Bellucia Rafinesque - Mel-Hen
Oxymeris de Candolle = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Oxyspora de Candolle - Mel-Son
Pachyanthus A. Richard = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Pachycentria Blume = Medinilla de Candolle - Mel-Son
Pachyloma de Candolle - Mel-Rhe
Pentossaea Judd = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Petalonema Gilg = Gravesia Naudin - Mel-Son
Phaeoneuron Gilg - Mel-Din
Phainantha Gleason - Mel-Son
Phainanthe
Phyllagathis Blume - Mel-Son
Phyllapophysis Mansfeld = Catanthera F. Muell - Mel-Diss
Phornothamnus Baker = Gravesia Naudin - Mel-Son
Physeterostemon Goldenberg & Amorim - Mel-Eri
Pilocosta Almeda & Whiffin - Mel-Mel
Plagiopetalum Rehder - Mel-Son
Platycentrum Klotzsch = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Pleiochiton A. Gray = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Pleroma D. Don - Mel-Mel
Plethiandra J. D. Hooker = Medinilla de Candolle - Mel-Son
Podocaelia (Bentham) A. Fern. & R. Fern = Derosiphian Rafinesque - Mel-Mel
Pogonanthera Blume = Medinilla de Candolle - Mel-Son
Poikilogyne Baker f. - Mel-Son
Poilannammia C. Hansen - Mel-Son
Poteranthera Bongers - Mel-Lav
Preussiella Gilg - Mel-Son
Pseudodissochaeta M. P. Nayar - Mel-Diss
Pseudoernestia (Cogniaux) Krasser - Mel-Mar
Pseudosbeckia A. Fernandes & R. Fernandes - Mel-Mel
Pternandra Jack - Kib
Pterogastra Naudin - Mel-Mel
Pterolepis (de Candolle) Miquel - Mel-Mel
Pterolepis Endlicher = Osbeckia L.
Purpurella Naudin = Chaetogastra de Candolle - Mel-Mel
Pyramia Chamisso = Cambessedesia de Candolle - Mel-Pyr
Pyrotis Veranso-Libalah & R. D. Stone - Mel-Mel
Pyxidanthus Naudin = Blakea P. Browne - Mel-Bla
Quipuanthus Michelangeli & Ulloa - Mel-Cyph
Rectomitra Blume = Pternandra Jack - Kib
Rhexia L. - Mel-Rhe
Rhodosepala Baker = Nerophila Naudin - Mel-Mel
Rhynchanthera de Candolle - Mel-Lav
Roezlia Regel = Monochaetum (de Candolle) Naudin - Mel-Mel
Rosettea Veranso-Libalah & G. Kadereit - Mel-Mel
Rostranthera Rocha & Guimarães - Mel-Mar
Rousseauxia de Candolle
Rupestrea Goldenberg et al. - Mel-Rup
Sagraea de Candolle = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Salpinga de Candolle - Mel-Mer
Sandemania Gleason - Mel-Mar
Sarcopyramis Wallich - Mel-Son
Sarmentaria Naudin = Adelobotrys de Candolle - Mel-Mer
Schwackaea Cogniaux - Mel-Mel
Scorpiothyrsus H. L. Li - Mel-Son
Siphanthera de Candolle - Mel-Mar
Sonerila Roxburgh - Mel-Son
Spathandra Guillaumin & Perrier - Oli
Spennera de Candolle = Aciotis D. Don - Mel-Mar
Sporocyphoxeia - Mel-Son
Sporoxeia W. W. Smith - Mel-Son
Stanmarkia Almeda - Mel-Sta
Stapfiophyton
Stenodon Naudin = Microlicia D. Don - Mel-Lav
Stussenia C. Hansen - Mel-Son
Styrophyton S. Y. Hu - Mel-Son
Svitramia Chamisso = Pleroma D. Don - Mel-Mel
Synodon Rafinesque = Conostegia D. Don = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Tashiroea T. Itô & Matsumura - Mel-Son
Tateanthus Gleason - Mel-Son
Tayloriophyton
Tessmannianthus Markgraf - Mel-Ast
Tetraphyllaster Gilg
Tetrazygia de Candolle = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Tetrazygiopsis Borhidi = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Tibouchina Aublet - Mel-Mel
Tibouchinopsis Markgraf = Pleroma D. Don - Mel-Mel
Tigridiopalma C. Chen - Mel-Son
Tococa Aublet = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Topobea Aublet = Blakea P. Browne - Mel-Bla
Trembleya de Candolle = Microlicia D. Don - Mel-Lav
Tricentrum de Candolle = Comolia de Candolle - Mel-Mar
Trigynia
Trimeranthus H. Karsten = Chaetolepis (de Candolle) Miquel - Mel-Mel
Triolena Naudin - Mel-Tri
Triplectrum Wight & Arnott = Medinilla de Candolle - Mel-Son
Tristemma Jussieu - Mel-Mel
Tryssophyton Wurdack - Mel-Son
Tschudya de Candolle = Miconia Ruíz & Pavón - Mel-Mic
Tulasnea Naudin = Siphanthera de Candolle - Mel-Mar
Tylanthera C. Hansen - Mel-Son
Uranthera Naudin = Acisanthera P. Browne - Mel-Mar
Urotheca Gilg = Gravesia Naudin - Mel-Son
Valdesia Ruíz & Pavón = Blakea P. Browne - Mel-Bla
Veprecella Naudin = Gravesia Naudin - Mel-Son
Vietsenia C. Hansen - Mel-Son
Votomita Aublet - Oli
Warneckea Gilg - Oli
Webera J. F. Gmelin = Bellucia Rafinesque - Mel-Hen
Wurdastom Wallnöfer - Mel-Cyph
See Wurdack and Michelangeli (2019); for genera in Marcetieae, see da Rocha et al. (2017), for Miconia see Michelangeli (2019 and references), for New World Melastomateae, see Guimarães et al. (2020), for African Melastomateae, see Veranso-Libalah et al. (2020) and for recent nomenclatural, etc., adjustments, see Penneys et al. (2022).