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The Myrtaceae or Myrtle family are a family of dicotyledon
Dicotyledon

Dicotyledons, or "dicots", is a name for a group of flowering plants whose seed typically has two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. There are around 199,350 species within this group....
 plant
Plant

Plants are Life organisms belonging to the Kingdom Plantae. They include familiar organisms such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae....
s, placed within the order Myrtales
Myrtales

The Myrtales are an order of flowering plants placed as a basal group within the rosid group of dicotyledons . The following families are typical of newer classifications:...
. Myrtle, clove
Clove

Cloves are the aromatic dried flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtaceae. Cloves are native to Indonesia and used as a spice in cuisine all over the world....
, guava
Guava

Guavas are plants in the myrtle family genus Psidium, which contains about 100 species of tropical shrubs and small trees. Native to Mexico and Central America, northern South America, parts of the Caribbean and some parts of North Africa, guavas are now cultivated and naturalized throughout the tropics, and are also grown in some...
, feijoa
Feijoa

The Feijoa , also known as Pineapple Guava or Guavasteen, is an evergreen shrub or small tree, in height, originating from the highlands of southern Brazil, parts of Colombia, Uruguay and northern Argentina....
, allspice
Allspice

Allspice, also called Jamaica pepper, Kurundu, Myrtle pepper, pimento, or newspice, is a spice which is the dried unripe fruit of the Pimenta dioica plant, a tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico and Central America....
, and eucalyptus
Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of Flowering plant trees in the Myrtus family, Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia....
 belong here. All species are woody, with essential oil
Essential oil

An essential oil is a concentrated, hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aroma compounds from plants. They are also known as volatile or ethereal oils, or simply as the "oil of" the plant material from which they were extracted, such as oil of clove....
s, and flower parts in multiples of four or five. One notable character of the family is that the phloem
Phloem

In vascular plants, phloem is the living Biological tissue that carries organic nutrients , particularly sucrose, a sugar, to all parts of the plant where needed....
 is located on both sides of the xylem
Xylem

In vascular plants, xylem is one of the two types of transport tissue, phloem being the other. The word "xylem" is derived from classical Greek language ????? , "wood", and indeed the best known xylem tissue is wood, though it is found throughout the plant....
, not just outside as in most other plants. The leaves
Leaf

In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant Organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat and thin, to expose the cells containing chloroplast to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate fully into the tissues....
 are evergreen
Evergreen

In botany, an evergreen plant is a plant having leaf all year round. This contrasts with deciduous plants, which completely lose their foliage for part of the year....
, alternate to mostly opposite, simple, and usually with an entire (not toothed) margin.






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The Myrtaceae or Myrtle family are a family of dicotyledon
Dicotyledon

Dicotyledons, or "dicots", is a name for a group of flowering plants whose seed typically has two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. There are around 199,350 species within this group....
 plant
Plant

Plants are Life organisms belonging to the Kingdom Plantae. They include familiar organisms such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae....
s, placed within the order Myrtales
Myrtales

The Myrtales are an order of flowering plants placed as a basal group within the rosid group of dicotyledons . The following families are typical of newer classifications:...
. Myrtle, clove
Clove

Cloves are the aromatic dried flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtaceae. Cloves are native to Indonesia and used as a spice in cuisine all over the world....
, guava
Guava

Guavas are plants in the myrtle family genus Psidium, which contains about 100 species of tropical shrubs and small trees. Native to Mexico and Central America, northern South America, parts of the Caribbean and some parts of North Africa, guavas are now cultivated and naturalized throughout the tropics, and are also grown in some...
, feijoa
Feijoa

The Feijoa , also known as Pineapple Guava or Guavasteen, is an evergreen shrub or small tree, in height, originating from the highlands of southern Brazil, parts of Colombia, Uruguay and northern Argentina....
, allspice
Allspice

Allspice, also called Jamaica pepper, Kurundu, Myrtle pepper, pimento, or newspice, is a spice which is the dried unripe fruit of the Pimenta dioica plant, a tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico and Central America....
, and eucalyptus
Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of Flowering plant trees in the Myrtus family, Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia....
 belong here. All species are woody, with essential oil
Essential oil

An essential oil is a concentrated, hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aroma compounds from plants. They are also known as volatile or ethereal oils, or simply as the "oil of" the plant material from which they were extracted, such as oil of clove....
s, and flower parts in multiples of four or five. One notable character of the family is that the phloem
Phloem

In vascular plants, phloem is the living Biological tissue that carries organic nutrients , particularly sucrose, a sugar, to all parts of the plant where needed....
 is located on both sides of the xylem
Xylem

In vascular plants, xylem is one of the two types of transport tissue, phloem being the other. The word "xylem" is derived from classical Greek language ????? , "wood", and indeed the best known xylem tissue is wood, though it is found throughout the plant....
, not just outside as in most other plants. The leaves
Leaf

In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant Organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat and thin, to expose the cells containing chloroplast to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate fully into the tissues....
 are evergreen
Evergreen

In botany, an evergreen plant is a plant having leaf all year round. This contrasts with deciduous plants, which completely lose their foliage for part of the year....
, alternate to mostly opposite, simple, and usually with an entire (not toothed) margin. The flower
Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproduction structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds....
s have a base number of five petals, though in several genera the petals are minute or absent. The stamen
Stamen

The stamen is the male organ of a flower. Each stamen generally has a stalk called the filament , and, on top of the filament, an anther , and pollen sacs, called sporangium....
s are usually very conspicuous, brightly coloured and numerous.

The family Myrtaceae has at least 3000 species, possibly more than 5000 species, and is distributed in 130-150 genera. They have a wide distribution in tropical and warm-temperate regions of the world, and are typically common in many of the world's biodiversity hotspot
Biodiversity hotspot

A biodiversity hotspot is a biogeographic region with a significant reservoir of biodiversity that is threatened with destruction.The concept of biodiversity hotspots was originated by Dr....
s. Genera with capsular fruits such as Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of Flowering plant trees in the Myrtus family, Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia....
, Corymbia
Corymbia

Corymbia is a genus of about 113 species of tree that were classified as Eucalyptus species until the mid-1990s. It includes the bloodwoods, ghost gums, spotted gums amongst others....
, Angophora
Angophora

Angophora is a genus of ten species of trees or large shrubs in the myrtle family , native to eastern Australia. It is closely related to Corymbia and Eucalyptus, and all three are often referred to as "eucalypts"....
, Leptospermum
Leptospermum

Leptospermum is a genus of about 80-86 species of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. Most species are endemic to Australia, with the greatest diversity in the south of the continent; but one species extends to New Zealand, another to Malaysia, and Leptospermum recurvum is endemic to Malaysia....
, Melaleuca
Melaleuca

Melaleuca is a genus of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. There are well over 200 recognized species, most of which are endemic to Australia....
, Metrosideros
Metrosideros

Metrosideros is a genus of approximately 50 trees, shrubs, and vines native to the islands of the Pacific Ocean, from the Philippines to New Zealand and including the Bonin Islands, Polynesia, and Melanesia, with an anomalous outlier in South Africa....
 are absent from the Americas, apart from the monotypic genus Tepualia in Chile
Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
. Genera with fleshy fruits have their greatest concentrations in eastern Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 and Malesia
Malesia

Malesia is a biogeography region straddling the boundary of the Indomalaya and Australasia ecozones. Malesia was first identified as a floristic province that included the Malay Peninsula, Indonesia, the Philippines and New Guinea, based on a shared tropical flora derived mostly from Asia but also with numerous elements of the Antarctic flo...
 (the Australasia ecozone
Australasia ecozone

The Australasian zone is an ecozone that is coincident, but not synonymous , with the geography region of Australasia. The ecozone includes Australia, the island of New Guinea , and the eastern part of the Indonesian archipelago, including the island of Sulawesi, the Moluccan islands and islands of Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, and Timo...
) and the Neotropic
Neotropic

In biogeography, Neotropic or Neotropical refers to one of the world's eight terrestrial ecozones.This ecozone includes South and Central America, the Mexico lowlands, the Caribbean islands, and southern Florida, because these regions share a large number of plant and animal groups....
s. Eucalyptus is a dominant, nearly ubiquitous genus in the more mesic parts of Australia and extends north sporadically to the Philippines
Philippines

The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
. Eucalyptus regnans
Eucalyptus regnans

Eucalyptus regnans, known variously by the common names Mountain Ash, Victorian Ash, Swamp Gum, Tasmanian Oak or Stringy Gum, is a species of Eucalyptus native to southeastern Australia, in Tasmania and Victoria ....
 is the tallest flowering plant in the world. Other important Australian genera are Callistemon
Bottlebrush

Bottlebrush is a genus with 34 species of shrubs in the family Myrtaceae. The majority of Callistemon species are endemic to Australia; four species are also found in New Caledonia....
 (bottlebrushes), Syzygium
Syzygium

Syzygium is a genus of flowering plants that belongs to the Myrtus family, Myrtaceae. The genus comprises about 1100 species, and has a native range that extends from Africa and Madagascar through southern Asia east through the Pacific Ocean....
, and Melaleuca
Melaleuca

Melaleuca is a genus of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. There are well over 200 recognized species, most of which are endemic to Australia....
 (paperbarks). The genus Osbornia, native to Australasia, are mangrove
Mangrove

Mangroves are trees and shrubs that grow in saline water coastal habitats in the tropics and subtropics. The word is used in at least three senses: most broadly to refer to the habitat and entire plant assemblage or mangal, for which the terms mangrove swamp and mangrove forest are also used, to refer to all trees and...
s. Eugenia
Eugenia

Eugenia is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. It has a worldwide, although highly uneven, distribution in tropical and subtropical regions....
, Myrcia
Myrcia

Myrcia is a genus of the flowering plant family Myrtaceae.Selected species* Myrcia albobrunnea* Myrcia albo-tomentosa A. P. de Candolle...
, and Calyptranthes are among the larger genera in the neotropics.

Historically, the Myrtaceae were divided into two subfamilies. Subfamily Myrtoideae was recognized as having fleshy fruits and opposite, entire leaves. Most genera in this subfamily have one of three easily recognized types of embryos. The genera of Myrtoideae can be very difficult to distinguish in the absence of mature fruits. The Myrtoideae are found worldwide in subtropical and tropical regions, with centres of diversity in the Neotropics, northeastern Australia, and Malesia. In contrast, Subfamily Leptospermoideae were recognized as having dry, indehiscent fruits (capsules) and leaves arranged spirally or alternate. The Leptospermoideae are found mostly in Australasia, with a centre of diversity in Australia. Many genera in Western Australia have greatly reduced leaves and flowers typical of more xeric habitats.

The division of the Myrtaceae into the Leptospermoideae and Myrtoideae was challenged by a number of authors, including Johnson and Briggs (1984), who identified 14 tribes or clades within the Myrtaceae, and found the Myrtoideae to be polyphyletic. Molecular studies by several groups of authors, as of 2008, have confirmed that the baccate (fleshy) fruits evolved twice from capsular fruits, and as such the two subfamily classification does not accurately portray the phylogenetic (=evolutionary) history of the family. Thus many workers are now using a recent analysis by Wilson et al. (in 2005) as a starting point to test further analyses of the family.

The genera Heteropyxis
Heteropyxis

Heteropyxis is a genus which includes three species of small evergreen trees. It was previously placed along in family Heteropyxidaceae, but is now placed basally within Myrtaceae....
 and Psiloxylon
Psiloxylon

Psiloxylon mauritianum is species of flowering plant, the sole species of family Psiloxylaceae. It is endemic to the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean....
 have been separated as separate families by many authors in the past as Heteropyxidaceae and Psiloxylaceae. However, Wilson et al. (2005) included Heteropyxis and Psiloxylon in Myrtaceae. These two genera are presently believed to be the earliest arising and surviving lineages of Myrtaceae.

Many new species are being described annually from throughout the range of Myrtaceae. Likewise, new genera are being described nearly yearly.

Genera

  • Accara
    Accara

    Accara elegans is the sole species of the monotypic genus Accara in the botany family Myrtaceae. It is a shrub native to Brazil, reaching 1-2m in height....
  • Acmena
    Acmena

    Acmena is a genus of shrubs and small trees in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. They are related to guavas. The name is derived from the Greek language word for "plentiful."...
  • Acmenosperma
  • Actinodium
    Actinodium

    Actinodium is a genus of the botany family Myrtaceae, endemic to Western Australia.There are two species:*Actinodium calocephalum N.G.Marchant ms ...
  • Agonis
    Agonis

    Agonis is a genus of four species in the plant family Myrtaceae. All are endemic to Western Australia, growing near the coast in the Southwest Australia....
  • Allosyncarpia
    Allosyncarpia

    Allosyncarpia is a genus of the botany family Myrtaceae....
  • Amomyrtella
    Amomyrtella

    Amomyrtella is a genus of the botany family Myrtaceae....
  • Amomyrtus
    Amomyrtus

    Amomyrtus is a genus of the botany family Myrtaceae....
  • Angasomyrtus
    Angasomyrtus

    Angasomyrtus is a genus of the botany family Myrtaceae....
  • Angophora
    Angophora

    Angophora is a genus of ten species of trees or large shrubs in the myrtle family , native to eastern Australia. It is closely related to Corymbia and Eucalyptus, and all three are often referred to as "eucalypts"....
  • Archirhodomyrtus
    Archirhodomyrtus

    Archirhodomyrtus is a genus of the botany family Myrtaceae....
  • Arillastrum
    Arillastrum

    Arillastrum is a genus of the botany family Myrtaceae....
  • Astartea
    Astartea

    Astartea is a genus of the botany family Myrtaceae. The genus is endemic to the south west of Western Australia.Species include:*Astartea affinis Rye...
  • Asteromyrtus
    Asteromyrtus

    Asteromyrtus is a genus of the botany family Myrtaceae....
  • Austromyrtus
    Austromyrtus

    Austromyrtus is a genus of shrubs in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. They are found along the east coast of Australia, in Queensland and New South Wales, and in New Caledonia....
  • Backhousia
    Backhousia

    Backhousia is a small genus of five species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae, native to the rainforests of eastern Australia. They are aromatic shrubs or trees growing to 5-25 m tall, with evergreen leaf 3-12 cm long and 1-6 cm broad, arranged opposite on the shoots....
  • Baeckea
    Baeckea

    Baeckea is a genus of 75 species of shrub in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. The are found in Australia, New Caledonia and Southeast Asia with Australia having the largest distribution....
  • Balaustion
    Balaustion

    Balaustion is a genus of the botany family Myrtaceae....
  • Barongia
  • Basisperma
  • Beaufortia
    Beaufortia

    Beaufortia is a genus of the botany family Myrtaceae, endemic to Southwest Australia.Species include:*Beaufortia aestiva K.Brooks ...
  • Blepharocalyx
    Blepharocalyx

    Blepharocalyx is a genus of plant in family Myrtaceae. It contains the following species:*Blepharocalyx acuminatissimus, Berg*Blepharocalyx acuminatus, O.Berg in Mart....
  • Callistemon
    Bottlebrush

    Bottlebrush is a genus with 34 species of shrubs in the family Myrtaceae. The majority of Callistemon species are endemic to Australia; four species are also found in New Caledonia....
  • Calothamnus
    Calothamnus

    Calothamnus is a genus of shrubs, in the family Myrtaceae, which are endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. The name Calothamnus, ascribed to the genus by botanist Robert Brown , is derived from the Greek language words kalos and thamnos ....
  • Calycolpus
    Calycolpus

    Calycolpus is a genus of the botany family Myrtaceae, native to the Americas.The species Calycolpus excisus is a small tree known only from the limestone mountains of eastern Cuba. It is on the IUCN Red List....
  • Calycorectes
    Calycorectes

    Calycorectes is a genus of plant in family Myrtaceae. It contains the following species :* Calycorectes australis, D.Legrand* Calycorectes duarteanus, D.Legrand...
  • Calyptranthes
  • Calyptrogenia
  • Calythropsis
  • Calytrix
    Calytrix

    'Calytrix' is a genus of shrubs in the family Myrtaceae. They are commonly known as 'Starflowers'.Calytrix are endemic to Australia, occurring in all of its states....
  • Campomanesia
    Campomanesia

    Campomanesia is a genus of the botany family Myrtaceae.Selected species*Campomanesia adamantium Carl Ludwig Blume*Campomanesia phaea...
  • Carpolepis
  • Chamelaucium
    Chamelaucium

    Chamelaucium is a genus of shrubs endemic to Southwest Australia Western Australia. They belong to the myrtle family Myrtaceae and have flowers similar to those of the tea-trees ....
  • Chamguava
    Chamguava

    Chamguava is a genus of the botany family Myrtaceae, described in 1991 from Central America....
  • Choricarpia
    Choricarpia

    Choricarpia is a genus of trees comprising two species endemic to New South Wales and Queensland in Australia:*Choricarpia leptopetala, Brown Myrtle or Brush Turpentine...
  • Cleistocalyx
  • Cloezia
  • Conothamnus
  • Corymbia
    Corymbia

    Corymbia is a genus of about 113 species of tree that were classified as Eucalyptus species until the mid-1990s. It includes the bloodwoods, ghost gums, spotted gums amongst others....
  • Corynanthera
  • Cupheanthus
  • Curitiba
    Curitiba

    Curitiba is the capital city of the Brazilian Brazilian state of Paran? . The city has the largest population and also the largest economy in Southern Region, Brazil....
  • Darwinia
    Darwinia (plant)

    Darwinia is a genus of between 30-60 species of evergreen shrubs in the family Myrtaceae, Endemic to southeastern and southwestern Australia....
  • Decaspermum
  • Eremaea
    Eremaea (plant)

    Eremaea is a genus of shrubs in the family Myrtaceae. The species are all native to Western Australia. These include:* Eremaea acutifolia F.Muell....
  • Eucalyptopsis
    Eucalyptopsis

    Eucalyptopsis is a genus of plant in family Myrtaceae. It contains the following species :* Eucalyptopsis papuana, C.T.White...
  • Eucalyptus
    Eucalyptus

    Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of Flowering plant trees in the Myrtus family, Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia....
  • Eugenia
    Eugenia

    Eugenia is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. It has a worldwide, although highly uneven, distribution in tropical and subtropical regions....
  • Feijoa
    Feijoa

    The Feijoa , also known as Pineapple Guava or Guavasteen, is an evergreen shrub or small tree, in height, originating from the highlands of southern Brazil, parts of Colombia, Uruguay and northern Argentina....
     (syn. Acca)
  • Gomidesia
    Gomidesia

    Gomidesia is a genus of plant in family Myrtaceae.Species include:* Gomidesia cambessedeana, Ernst von Berg* Gomidesia mugnifolia, Ernst von Berg...
  • Gossia
  • Hexachlamys
  • Homalocalyx
  • Homalospermum
  • Homoranthus
    Homoranthus

    Homoranthus is a genus of 22 species of shrub in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. They are endemic to Australia. None of the species are common nor are they well-known to horticulture....
  • Hottea
  • Hypocalymma
    Hypocalymma

    Hypocalymma is a genus of evergreen shrubs in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. It currently contains 29 species, all of which occur in southern Western Australia....
  • Kania
    Kania

    Kania may refer to the following places:*Kania, Ostr?w Wielkopolski County in Greater Poland Voivodeship *Kania, Slupca County in Greater Poland Voivodeship ...
  • Kjellbergiodendron
  • Kunzea
    Kunzea

    Kunzea is a genus of 36-40 species of shrub in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. They are native to Australia, with one species extending to New Zealand....
  • Lamarchea
  • Legrandia
  • Lenwebbia
    Lenwebbia

    Lenwebbia is a genus of 2 species of shrubs or small trees in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. The genus is named to honour the Australian plant ecologist Dr....
  • Leptospermum
    Leptospermum

    Leptospermum is a genus of about 80-86 species of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. Most species are endemic to Australia, with the greatest diversity in the south of the continent; but one species extends to New Zealand, another to Malaysia, and Leptospermum recurvum is endemic to Malaysia....
  • Lindsayomyrtus
  • Lithomyrtus
  • Lophomyrtus
    Lophomyrtus

    Lophomyrtus is a genus of the Myrtaceae native to New Zealand. It has two species, both evergreen shrubs or trees, noted for their colorful leaves, which are purple, chocolate, red or bronze-green....
  • Lophostemon
    Lophostemon

    Lophostemon is a genus of 4 species of evergreen tree in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. All four species are native to Australia, with one extending to New Guinea....
  • Luma
    Luma (plant)

    Luma is a genus of two species of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, native to the Valdivian temperate rain forests of southwestern South America....
  • Lysicarpus
  • Mallostemon
  • Marlierea
    Marlierea

    Marlierea is a genus of the botany family Myrtaceae.Species include:*Marlierea sintenisii...
  • Melaleuca
    Melaleuca

    Melaleuca is a genus of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. There are well over 200 recognized species, most of which are endemic to Australia....
  • Meteoromyrtus
    Meteoromyrtus

    Meteoromyrtus is a genus of plant in family Myrtaceae.Species include:* Meteoromyrtus wynaadensis, Gamble...
  • Metrosideros
    Metrosideros

    Metrosideros is a genus of approximately 50 trees, shrubs, and vines native to the islands of the Pacific Ocean, from the Philippines to New Zealand and including the Bonin Islands, Polynesia, and Melanesia, with an anomalous outlier in South Africa....
  • Micromyrtus
    Micromyrtus

    Micromyrtus is a genus of shrubs, in the family Myrtaceae, which are endemic to Australia.Species include:*Micromyrtus albicans A.R.Bean...
  • Mitranthes
    Mitranthes

    Mitranthes is a genus of plant in family Myrtaceae.Species include:* Mitranthes clarendonensis, Proctor* Mitranthes macrophylla, Proctor...
  • Mitrantia
  • Monimiastrum
  • Mosiera
  • Myrceugenia
    Myrceugenia

    Myrceugenia is a genus of evergreen woody flowering plant trees and shrubs belonging to the Myrtle family, Myrtaceae. The genus is native to South America from southeast Brazil south to southern Chile; it is closely related to the genus Luma ; some botanists include Myrceugenia in that genus....
  • Myrcia
    Myrcia

    Myrcia is a genus of the flowering plant family Myrtaceae.Selected species* Myrcia albobrunnea* Myrcia albo-tomentosa A. P. de Candolle...
  • Myrcianthes
    Myrcianthes

    Myrcianthes is a genus of plant in family Myrtaceae.Species include:* Myrcianthes callicoma, Rogers McVaugh* Myrcianthes irregularis, Rogers McVaugh...
  • Myrciaria
    Myrciaria

    Myrciaria is a genus of large shrubs and small trees native to South America, especially Brazil. Common names include Jaboticaba, Jabuticaba, Guaperu, Guapuru, Hivapuru, Sabar?, and Ybapuru....
  • Myrrhinium
  • Myrtastrum
  • Myrtella
  • Myrteola
  • Myrtus
    Myrtle

    The Myrtle is a genus of one or two species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae, native to southern Europe and north Africa. They are evergreen shrubs or small trees, growing to 5 m tall....
  • Neofabricia
  • Neomitranthes
    Neomitranthes

    Neomitranthes is a genus of plant in family Myrtaceae.Species include:* Neomitranthes cordifolia, Legr.* Neomitranthes langsdorfii, Mattos...
  • Neomyrtus
  • Ochrosperma
  • Octamyrtus
  • Osbornia
  • Paramyrciaria
  • Pericalymma
  • Phymatocarpus
  • Pileanthus
  • Pilidiostigma
    Pilidiostigma

    Pilidiostigma is a genus of 6 species of shrubs and small trees in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. All species occur in Australia and one, Pilidiostigma papuanum, also occurs in Papua New Guinea....
  • Piliocalyx
  • Pimenta
    Pimenta

    Pimenta is a genus of the botany family Myrtaceae. Well-known species include allspice and the Pimenta racemosa .Below is a list of species this genus includes:...
  • Pleurocalyptus
  • Plinia
    Plinia

    Plinia is a genus of the botany family Myrtaceae.Species include:*Cambuca*    Plinia rupestris...
  • Pseudanamomis
  • Psidium
  • Purpureostemon
  • Regelia
    Regelia

    Regelia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae. This genus is composed of six species of small leaved, evergreen shrubs and trees that are endemism to Australia....
  • Rhodamnia
  • Rhodomyrtus
    Rhodomyrtus

    Rhodomyrtus is a genus of shrubs and trees in the family Myrtaceae. The genus is native to Asia, Australia and New Caledonia.Species include:...
  • Rinzia
  • Ristantia
  • Scholtzia
    Scholtzia

    Scholtzia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae, which are endemic to the south-west of Western Australia.The genus was first described by Schauer in 1843, who named it in honour of the physician Heinrich Scholtz....
  • Seorsus
    Seorsus

    Seorsus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae.The occurrence of the four species in Australia and Borneo is widely spaced, and is thought to be indicative that the genus predates the break up of Gondwana....
  • Siphoneugena
  • Sphaerantia
  • Stereocaryum
  • Stockwellia
  • Syncarpia
    Syncarpia

    Syncarpia is a small genus of trees in the myrtle family . They are native to Queensland and New South Wales in Australia. They are unusual among the Myrtaceae in that the leaves are opposite rather than alternate as is the norm for the family....
  • Syzygium
    Syzygium

    Syzygium is a genus of flowering plants that belongs to the Myrtus family, Myrtaceae. The genus comprises about 1100 species, and has a native range that extends from Africa and Madagascar through southern Asia east through the Pacific Ocean....
  • Taxandria
    Taxandria (plant)

    Taxandria is a genus of at least thirteen species in the plant family Myrtaceae. All are endemic to Western Australia, growing near the coast in the South West corner of the States and territories of Australia....
  • Tepualia
    Tepualia

    Tepualia is a monotypic genus of the Myrtaceae containing only the species Tepualia stipularis, which is commonly known as tep?, trep?, or tepual....
  • Thryptomene
    Thryptomene

    Thryptomene is a genus of small shrubs in the family Myrtaceae which are native to Australia.Species include:*Thryptomene appressa C.R.P.Andrews...
  • Tristania
    Tristania

    Tristania is a monotypic genus in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, native to New South Wales, Australia, closely related to bottlebrush. The genus had a number of species, but some have been reclassified as Lophostemon and Tristaniopsis....
  • Tristaniopsis
    Tristaniopsis

    Tristaniopsis is a genus of 40 species of shrub and tree in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. They have a wide distribution, ranging from Burma, Thailand, Malesia, New Caledonia and Australia....
  • Ugni
    Ugni

    Ugni is a genus of about 10 species of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, native to western South America and Central America from the Valdivian temperate rain forests of southern Chile north to southern Mexico, and also the Juan Fern?ndez Islands off Chile....
  • Uromyrtus
    Uromyrtus

    Uromyrtus is a genus of approximately 15-20 species in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. The greatest diversity of species are found in New Caledonia and the remainder are found in Australia, New Guinea and Malesia....
  • Verticordia
    Verticordia

    Verticordia, a genus of the Myrtaceae family, are woody shrubs with small and exquisite flowers. They are mostly found in Southwest Australia, with several outlier species in northern regions....
  • Waterhousea
    Waterhousea

    Waterhousea is a genus of 4 species of small tree in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. They are endemic to Australia, along the eastern coast in New South Wales and Queensland....
  • Welchiodendron
  • Whiteodendron
  • Xanthomyrtus
    Xanthomyrtus

    Xanthomyrtus is a genus of about 24 species in the botany family Myrtaceae. It is found in Borneo, Maluku Islands, Sulawesi, Philippines, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago and New Caledonia....
  • Xanthostemon
    Xanthostemon

    Xanthostemon is a genus of plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. It contains 45 species and has a wide distribution including the Philippines, New Guinea, Australia, Indonesia and New Caledonia....


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