Given two graphs $G$ and $H$, the {it rainbow number} $rb(G,H)$ for $H$ with respect to $G$ is defined as the minimum number $k$ such that any $k$-edge-coloring of $G$ contains a rainbow $H$, i.e., a copy of $H$, all of its edges have different colors. Denote by $M_t$ a matching of size $t$ and $mathcal {T}_n$ the class of all plane triangulations of order $n$, respectively. Jendrol, Schiermeyer and Tu initiated to investigate the rainbow numbers for matchings in plane triangulations, and proved some bounds for the value of $rb({mathcal {T}_n},M_t)$. Chen, Lan and Song proved that $2n+3t-14 le rb(mathcal {T}_n, M_t)le 2n+4t-13$ for all $nge 3t-6$ and $t ge 6$. In this paper, we determine the exact values of $rb({mathcal {T}_n},M_t)$ for large $n$, namely, $rb({mathcal {T}_n},M_t)=2n+3t-14$ for all $n ge 9t+3$ and $tge 7$.
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