Three new tribes in Myrtaceae and reassessment of Kanieae Author Wilson, Peter G. Author Heslewood, Margaret M. Author Tarran, Myall A. text Australian Systematic Botany 2022 2022-07-15 35 4 279 295 http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sb21032 journal article 10.1071/SB21032 1446-5701 10904165 Kanieae Engl., in H . G . A . Engler (ed.), Nat . Pflanzenfam ., 2nd edn. 2, 18a: 109 (1930) Kanieae Peter G .Wilson ex Reveal, Phytoneuron 2012–37: 217 (2012), isonym. Type : Kania Schlr. Trees or shrubs; leaves opposite. Inflorescence axillary, cymes or panicles; flowers yellow; stamens free, in a single whorl on the hypanthial rim, evenly spaced or, occasionally, grouped opposite the petals; anthers with elongated connectives. Style terminal on the ovary; ovules scattered on basal placentas that are remote from the style. Fruit a capsule, exserted from the hypanthium; seeds linear; embryo straight; cotyledons lying face-to-face. A monogeneric tribe of ~10 species that occurs only in Malesia (New Guinea and the Philippines ). Fossil evidence ( Tarran et al . 2016 , 2017 ) indicates that Kania may have been present in Australia in the late Eocene to Oligo-Miocene. Nomenclatural note Reveal (2012 , p. 217) questioned the validity of the tribal name given in Wilson et al . (2005) and republished the tribe as ‘ Kanieae Peter G.Wilson ex Reveal , trib. nov. , based on Kanioideae Engl.’, with the presumed implication that the simultaneous publication of Kanioideae and Kanieae by Engler (1930) made the latter name superfluous. However, alternative advice ( W . Greuter, pers. comm., 2014) is that the name Kanieae was validly published and that the Reveal name is an isonym.