| Tibouchina barbigera | |
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| Original botanical illustration | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Melastomataceae |
| Genus: | Tibouchina |
| Species: | T. barbigera |
| Binomial name | |
| Tibouchina barbigera (Naudin) Baill. [1] | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Tibouchina barbigera is a species of flowering plant in the family Melastomataceae, native from east Bolivia to Brazil. [1] It is a small shrub. It was first described by Naudin in 1850 as Lasiandra barbigera [2] and transferred to Tibouchina by Henri Ernest Baillon in 1877. [3] The type specimen is kept in the herbarium at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. [4] A small shrub, T. barbigera is the host to a number of gall-inducing moths. [5]
