Myrtella

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids II
Ordo: Myrtales

Familia: Myrtaceae
Subfamilia: Myrtoideae
Tribus: Myrteae
Subtribus: Decasperminae
Genus: Myrtella
Species:
Name

Myrtella F.Muell., Descr. Notes Papuan Pl. 1: 105 (1877).

Myrtella is a genus of plants in the Myrtaceae described as a genus in 1877.[2][3] It is native to New Guinea and to some islands of the western Pacific.[1][4]

Accepted species[1]

Myrtella beccarii F.Muell. - New Guinea, Solomon Islands
Myrtella bennigseniana (Volkens) Diels - New Guinea, Caroline Islands, Mariana Islands

Formerly included[1]

now classified in other genera: Kania, Lithomyrtus, Uromyrtus

Myrtella cordata - Lithomyrtus cordata
Myrtella hirsutula - Kania hirsutula
Myrtella microphylla - Lithomyrtus microphylla
Myrtella obtusa - Lithomyrtus obtusa
Myrtella phebalioides - Lithomyrtus retusa
Myrtella retusa - Lithomyrtus retusa
Myrtella rostrata - Uromyrtus rostrata

References

Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Mueller, Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von. 1877. Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants 105.
Tropicos, Myrtella F.Muell.
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.