Xanthomyrteae Peter G.Wilson, 2022

Wilson, Peter G., Heslewood, Margaret M. & Tarran, Myall A., 2022, Three new tribes in Myrtaceae and reassessment of Kanieae, Australian Systematic Botany 35 (4), pp. 279-295 : 293

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1071/SB21032
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10965240
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FF87E4-A733-F054-FCF4-D39DFA50A3ED
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Xanthomyrteae Peter G.Wilson
status	trib. nov.

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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)