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Key to Melastomataceae

Melastomataceae

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1 Plant a shrub; petals 5; fruit a berry (or at least fleshy); [se. FL and FL keys only]
  2 Upper leaf surface rough, with coarse appressed trichomes; flowers pink; fruit a fleshy, loculicidal capsule; [uncommon non-native]
  2 Upper leaf surface glabrous or with sparse lepidote scales; flowers white; [native of s. FL Everglades ecosytem uplands]
1 Plant an herb; petals 4 or 5; fruit a loculicidal capsule (not fleshy); [collectively widespread, including se. FL].