Dicotyledoneae - Myrtales - Melastomataceae
Alternative spelling: Melastomaceae
Parent taxon: Myrtales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Hickey 1977, Knowlton 1919 and Mabberley 2000
Sister taxa: Alzateaceae, Combretaceae, Crypteroniaceae, Haloragidaceae, Heterocolpites, Hydrocaryaceae, Lythraceae, Myrtaceae, Myrtaceidites, Oliniaceae, Onagraceae, Penaeaceae, Punicaceae, Rhynchocalycaceae, Sonneratiaceae, Trapaceae, Vochysiaceae
Subtaxa: Acrovena Medinilla Melastoma Melastomaceophyllum Melastomites Osbeckia Physophyllum Tibouchina
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (13 collections), India (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Bolivia (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Mexico (3)
• Miocene of Argentina (2), Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (3), Germany (13), India (1), the Russian Federation (2)
• Eocene of United States (1: North Dakota)
• Paleocene of United States (4: Montana)
• Tertiary of the Dominican Republic (2)
• Paleogene of United States (1: Wyoming)
Total: 48 collections including 50 occurrences