Pleroma mutabile information

Pleroma mutabile
	Flowers in different colours
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Myrtales
Family:	Melastomataceae
Genus:	Pleroma
Species:	P. mutabile
Binomial name
	Pleroma mutabile; (Vell.) Triana
Synonyms
	Lasiandra mutabilis (Vell.) Riedel ex Naudin ; Melastoma mutabile Vell. ; Tibouchina mutabilis (Vell.) Cogn. ;

Pleroma mutabile, synonym Tibouchina mutabilis,^[2] is an evergreen pioneer tree with an open crown, native to the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, mainly at the Serra do Mar zone, in the states of São Paulo, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, and Santa Catarina.

In Brazil, it is named manacá-da-serra.^[3] The word "manacá" means "flower" in Tupi-guarani language. "Serra" (ridge, in English) alludes to the Serra do Mar (Sea's Ridge).^[4]

In Australia, it is a popular ornamental plant, also known as glory bush.^[5]

^ ^a ^b "Pleroma mutabile (Vell.) Triana". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
^ Guimarães, Paulo José Fernandes; Michelangeli, Fabián A.; Sosa, Karla; Santiago Gómez, Jesús Ricardo (2019). "Systematics of Tibouchina and allies (Melastomataceae: Melastomateae): A new taxonomic classification". Taxon. 68 (5): 49. doi:10.1002/tax.12151. ISSN 0040-0262. S2CID 213372275.
^ Roskov Y.; Kunze T.; Orrell T.; Abucay L.; Paglinawan L.; Culham A.; Bailly N.; Kirk P.; Bourgoin T.; Baillargeon G.; Decock W.; De Wever A. (2014). Didžiulis V. (ed.). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2014 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
^ Dias, Antônio Gonçalves. Diccionario da Lingua Tupy, chamada Lingua Geral dos Indigenas do Brazil. Lípsia: F.A. Brockhaus, 1858.
^ "Tibouchina Noelene".

[POWO_574841-1-1] "Pleroma mutabile (Vell.) Triana". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2022-05-02.

[2] Guimarães, Paulo José Fernandes; Michelangeli, Fabián A.; Sosa, Karla; Santiago Gómez, Jesús Ricardo (2019). "Systematics of Tibouchina and allies (Melastomataceae: Melastomateae): A new taxonomic classification". Taxon. 68 (5): 49. doi:10.1002/tax.12151. ISSN 0040-0262. S2CID 213372275.

[Manaca-3] Roskov Y.; Kunze T.; Orrell T.; Abucay L.; Paglinawan L.; Culham A.; Bailly N.; Kirk P.; Bourgoin T.; Baillargeon G.; Decock W.; De Wever A. (2014). Didžiulis V. (ed.). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2014 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 26 May 2014.

[4] Dias, Antônio Gonçalves. Diccionario da Lingua Tupy, chamada Lingua Geral dos Indigenas do Brazil. Lípsia: F.A. Brockhaus, 1858.

[Australia-5] "Tibouchina Noelene".