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
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4
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sb21032
journal article
10.1071/SB21032
1446-5701
Xanthomyrteae Peter G.Wilson
,
trib. nov.
Type
:
Xanthomyrtus
Diels.
Trees or shrubs; branchlets hairy, often conspicuously glandular. Inflorescence of monads or triads. Flowers yellow, mostly 4-merous, sessile; stamens usually numerous, 1(–2)- seriate, free. Ovary inferior, usually 2- or 3-locular; ovules 10–20, arranged around the margin of the axile placenta; stigma small. Fruit a fleshy berry, reddish to blue-black; seeds many, small, with a crustaceous testa. Embryo with broad cotyledons lying face to face; hypocotyl accumbent.
A
monogeneric tribe of 23 species,
New Caledonia
and
Malesia
(
Philippines
, Borneo, Sulawesi, Maluku, New
Guinea
)