Myoporum Solander ex G. Forster

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 297

1. Myoporum Solander ex G. Forster 2

Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, entire or serrate, with numerous pellucid glands. Flowers small, axillary, solitary or clustered in cymes. Calyx 5-lobed. Corolla campanulate-hypocrateriform with a short tube and 5 patent lobes, often bearded. Stigma obtuse. Fruit a scarcely fleshy drupe.

Leaves lanceolate, usually entire; stamens 4 1. tenuifolium Leaves obovate, serrate in distal half; stamens 5 2. tetrandrum