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Tibouchina nigricans is a short, unbranched shrub from west-central Brazil with dark purple flower parts, known from only a few collections in open grassland and cerrado. It is rarely grown, so care follows the needs of related Tibouchina species in warm, sunny conditions.
Tibouchina nigricans is a species of flowering plant in the family Melastomataceae, native to west-central Brazil. It was first described in 2015 with the name attributed to the earlier botanist Alfred Cogniaux. The type specimens are kept at the Missouri Botanical Gardens and at Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Berlin.
This species is found in the states of Goiás and Distrito Federal in Brazil. It prefers open grassland including the campo sujo and cerrado rupestre. It has been found at elevations between 1,100 and 1,200 metres (3,600 and 3,900 ft). T. nigricans is only known from four collections. It has recently been found in Parque Nacional de Brasília and Serra dos Pireneus.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tibouchina nigricans by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
