Talk:Miconia crenata

But who was "Koster"?

I have just seen an early 20th century text discussing the plant's spread, where the name is given as "Köster" (suggesting a German, which ties in with much of the earliest Western settlement of the Fijian archipelago being by Germans). Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 19:31, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Clarified (and the misattribution corrected to identify the coffee plantation owner in question) thanks to some sleuthing by a Hawaiian biological survey in 2013.[1] Appropriately, as the original misidentification of the plant with Köster was done by an entomologist of the Hawaii Sugar Planters’ Association in 1906. – SJ + 00:24, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

Move to Miconia

This genus should be moved to Miconia crenata. Clidemia has been synonymized.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/26549481.pdf?casa_token=3GA2uX4MthQAAAAA:6RjYJeOikbBiExB92pDHO8ypoE1B2S74C-j1QNbpL4W12t5O1hGmSTHN-vcVXDiJXG7lamxxYvAMjnxaSS2nObuCGN9w2hH4oWmkssJKb2MttssUdn0

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank-Almeda/publication/328296497_Nomenclatural_novelties_in_Miconia_Melastomataceae_Miconieae/links/5bccbc3f458515f7d9cf1eca/Nomenclatural-novelties-in-Miconia-Melastomataceae-Miconieae.pdf

Wasp32 (talk) 03:52, 27 October 2021 (UTC)