Biology:Myrtastrum

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Myrtastrum
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Subfamily: Myrtoideae
Tribe: Myrteae
Genus: Myrtastrum
Burret
Species:
M. rufopunctatum
Binomial name
Myrtastrum rufopunctatum
(Pancher ex Brongn. & Gris) Burret
Synonyms[1]

Myrtus rufopunctata Pancher ex Brongn. & Gris

Myrtastrum is a genus of plants in the Myrtaceae first described as a genus in 1941.[2][3] It contains only one known species, Myrtastrum rufopunctatum, endemic to New Caledonia.[1][4] It is a phylogenetically isolated genus within the tribe Myrteae.[5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Burret, (Maximilian) Karl Ewald. 1941. Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 15: 494
  3. Tropicos, Myrtastrum Burret
  4. Govaerts, R., Sobral, N., Ashton, P., Barrie, F., Holst, B.K., Landrum, L.L., Matsumoto, K., Fernanda Mazine, F., Nic Lughadha, E., Proença, C. & al. (2008). World Checklist of Myrtaceae: 1-455. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  5. Vasconcelos, Thais N.C., Carol E.B. Proença, Berhaman Ahmad, Daniel S. Aguilar, Reinaldo Aguilar, Bruno S. Amorim, Keron Campbell, et al. (2017) Myrteae Phylogeny, Calibration, Biogeography and Diversification Patterns: Increased Understanding in the Most Species Rich Tribe of Myrtaceae.” Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 109: 113–37. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.01.002.

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