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Tibouchina fraterna is a species of flowering plant in the family Melastomataceae, native to Guyana and south Venezuela. It was first described by Nicholas Edward Brown in 1901. The type specimen is kept in the herbarium at the Berlin Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum. One chromosome count has been done for this species with a gametophytic count of 9.
Two subspecies are recognized:
Tibouchina albescens · Tibouchina araguaiensis · Tibouchina aspera · Tibouchina bruniana · Tibouchina catharinae · Tibouchina dissitiflora · Tibouchina duidae · Tibouchina edmundoi · Tibouchina johnwurdackiana · Tibouchina karstenii · Tibouchina llanorum · Tibouchina mathaei
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tibouchina fraterna by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
