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Medinilla elegans

Botanic Family

Melastomataceae

Author

Elmer

Common Names

• Tiwalos (Bagobo)

Geographical Habitats

• Mindanao - Philippines

Natural Habitats

• Humid forest
• montane forest

Flowering Times

• Jun-Aug (Philippines)

Fruiting Times

Scandent shrub with dark-brown hairy inflorescence to 30mm long of white and pink flowers, whitish petals with pink tips 20mm x 10mm arranged in windmill fashion, glabrous leaves, mid-vein brown-scurfy beneath

Further References

• NYBG
• Elmer