Tibouchina barbigera is a species of flowering plant in the family Melastomataceae, native from east Bolivia to Brazil.

It was first described by Naudin in 1850 as Lasiandra barbigera[2] and transferred to Tibouchina by Henri Ernest Baillon in 1877.

[3] The type specimen is kept in the herbarium at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.

[4] A small shrub, T. barbigera is the host to a number of gall-inducing moths.

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