《中国植物志》|| 野牡丹科 MELASTOMATACEAE ||野牡丹属 Melastoma Linn. ||地菍 Melastoma dodecandrum Lour.

1. 地菍（广州植物志）铺地锦（岭南采药录），山地菍（生草药性备要），紫茄子、山辣茄（浙江），库卢子（江西），土茄子、地蒲根（湖南），地脚菍（广东），地樱子、地枇杷（广西）
Melastoma dodecandrum Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 274. 1790, ed. Willd. 336. 1793; Hand.-Mazz. Symb. Sin. 7: 597. 1933; Merr. in Trans. Am. Philos. Soc. ii. 24: 287. 1935; H. L. Li in Journ. Arn. Arb. 25: 6. 1944; 广州植物志221.图103. 1956; 中国高等植物图鉴2: 1002. 图3733.1972; C. Chen in Journ. South China Agr. Coll. 4 (1): 32. fig. 1-3. 1983——M. repens Desr. in Lam. Encycl. 4: 54. 1796; Hance in Journ. Bot. 7: 296. 1869; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 113. 1861; Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot: 23: 300. 1887; Guillaum. in Lecte. Not. Syst. 2: 317. fig. 7, 2. 1913, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 60: 402. 1913 et in Lecte. Fl. Gen. Indo-Chine 2: 885. fig. 97, 2. 1921——Osbeckia repens DC. Prodr. 3: 142. 1828——Asterostoma repens Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 1: 50. 1849.
小灌木，长10-30厘米；茎匍匐上升，逐节生根，分枝多，披散，幼时被糙伏毛，以后无毛。叶片坚纸质，卵形或椭圆形，顶端急尖，基部广楔形，长1-4厘米，宽0.8-2(-3)厘米，全缘或具密浅细锯齿，3-5基出脉，叶面通常仅边缘被糙伏毛，有时基出脉行间被1-2行疏糙伏毛，背面仅沿基部脉上被极疏糙伏毛，侧脉互相平行；叶柄长2-6毫米，有时长达15毫米，被糙伏毛。聚伞花序，顶生，有花(1-)3朵，基部有叶状总苞2，通常较叶小；花梗长2-10毫米，被糙伏毛，上部具苞片2；苞片卵形，长2-3毫米，宽约1.5毫米，具缘毛，背面被糙伏毛；花萼管长约5毫米，被糙伏毛，毛基部膨大呈圆锥状，有时2-3簇生，裂片披针形，长2-3毫米，被疏糙伏毛，边缘具刺毛状缘毛，裂片间具1小裂片，较裂片小且短；花瓣淡紫红色至紫红色，菱状倒卵形，上部略偏斜，长1.2-2厘米，宽1-1.5厘米，顶端有1束刺毛，被疏缘毛；雄蕊长者药隔基部延伸，弯曲，末端具2小瘤，花丝较伸延的药隔略短，短者药隔不伸延，药隔基部具2小瘤；子房下位，顶端具刺毛。果坛状球状，平截，近顶端略缢缩，肉质，不开裂，长7-9毫米，直径约7毫米；宿存萼被疏糙伏毛。花期5-7月，果期7-9月。
产贵州、湖南、广西、广东（海南岛未发现），江西、浙江、福建。生于海拔1250米以下的山坡矮草丛中，为酸性土壤常见的植物。越南也有。
果可食，亦可酿酒；全株供药用，有涩肠止痢，舒筋活血，补血安胎，清热燥湿等作用；捣碎外敷可治疮、痈、疽、疖；根可解木薯中毒。

《Flora of China》|| Melastomataceae || Melastoma ||地菍 Melastoma dodecandrum

1. Melastoma dodecandrum Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. 1: 274. 1790.

地菍 di nie

Asterostoma repens (Desrousseaux) Blume; Melastoma repens Desrousseaux; Osbeckia repens (Desrousseaux) Candolle.

Shrublets 10-30 cm tall. Stems often repent; branchlets numerous, procumbent, strigose when young, later glabrous. Petiole 0.2-0.6(-1.5) cm; leaf blade ovate to elliptic, 1-4 × 0.8-2(-3) cm, stiffly papery, abaxially very remotely strigose along veins, adaxially usually strigose at margin only or sometimes sparsely strigose among veins, secondary veins 1 or 2 on each side of midvein, tertiary veins numerous and parallel, base broadly cuneate, margin densely serrulate or entire, apex acute. Inflorescences terminal, cymose, (1-)3-flowered, with 2 leaflike bracts at base. Pedicel 2-10 mm, strigose, apically 2-bracteolate; bracteoles ovate, 2-3 × ca. 1.5 mm, abaxially strigose, margin ciliate. Hypanthium ca. 5 mm, strigose, base of trichomes conically inflated. Calyx lobes lanceolate, 2-3 mm, sparsely strigose, margin bristly ciliate. Petals lavender to purple, rhomboid-obovate, 1.2-2 × 1-1.5 cm, apically oblique. Longer stamens with purple anthers; connective long extended at base, curved, apex 2-tuberculate. Shorter stamens with connective not extended, apex 2-tuberculate. Ovary inferior, apically bristly. Fruit urceolate-globular, 7-9 × ca. 7 mm, succulent, strigose. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Jul-Sep.

Open fields, thickets, grasslands, trailsides; below 1300 m. Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang [Vietnam].