Octamyrtus

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Octamyrtus
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Subfamily: Myrtoideae
Tribe: Myrteae
Genus: Octamyrtus
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Octamyrtus is a group of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae described as a genus in 1922. [1] [2] It is native to New Guinea and to the nearby Indonesian Province of Maluku. [3] [4]

Species
  1. Octamyrtus arfakensis Kaneh. & Hatus. ex C.T.White - West New Guinea
  2. Octamyrtus behrmannii Diels - New Guinea
  3. Octamyrtus glomerata Kaneh. & Hatus. ex C.T.White - New Guinea
  4. Octamyrtus halmaherensis Craven & Sunarti - Halmahera
  5. Octamyrtus insignis Diels - New Guinea
  6. Octamyrtus pleiopetala Diels - New Guinea, Aru Islands

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References

  1. Diels, Friedrich Ludwig Emil. 1922. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 57: 373-376 descriptions in Latin, commentary and geographic information in German
  2. Tropicos, Octamyrtus Diels
  3. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  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.