Octamyrtus

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: Octamyrtus
Species: O.
Name
Octamyrtus Diels, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 57: 373 (1922).

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

Octamyrtus arfakensis Kaneh. & Hatus. ex C.T.White - West New Guinea
Octamyrtus behrmannii Diels - New Guinea
Octamyrtus glomerata Kaneh. & Hatus. ex C.T.White - New Guinea
Octamyrtus halmaherensis Craven & Sunarti - Halmahera
Octamyrtus insignis Diels - New Guinea
Octamyrtus pleiopetala Diels - New Guinea, Aru Islands

References

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