A Myrtaceae or even Myrtle personal come the personal of dicotyledon plants, placed in a choose Myrtales. Myrtle, clove, guava, feijoa, allspice, and eucalyptus belong here. A plants come mostly woody, using essential oils, and virtually all flower area around multiples of 5. A virtually all peculiarity of the personal is that phloem is found in the pith inside the xylem when well as outside of it, does'nt merely outside as altogether more plants. A leaves are evergreen, alternate (rarely opposite), simple, & normally by having an entire (does'nt toothed) margin. A flowers have a base number of 5 petals, though withinside many genera, a petals come microscopic or even absent, & in others, reduced to 4. A stamens are usually super obvious, brightly coloured & super many.

A personal Myrtaceae has about 3000 species inside 130 genera. It have a wide distribution around caring-climate regions of a globe, by using the greatest concentration of species around Australasia and the Neotropics. Eucalyptus is a predominant tree genus around virtually all of Australia, & the Mountain-ash (Eucalyptus regnans) is the tallest flowering plant in the globe. More crucial Australian genera are Callistemon (bottlebrushes) and Melaleuca (paperbarks). A genus Osbornia, native to Australasia, are mangroves. Eugenia is the largest Neotropic genus.

A Myrtaceae come typically divided into 2 subfamilies. Subfamily Leptospermoideae has dry, woody fruit capsules & leaves intended spirally or even alternate. the Leptospermoideae come obtained mostly inside Australasia, by using a center of diversity around Australia. A Myrtoideae st& fleshy fruit, and leaves universally intended alternate. the Myrtoideae come discovered worldwide around subtropical & tropical regions, using a center of diversity in the Neotropics.

a section of a Myrtaceae into a Leptospermoideae & Myrtoideae was challenged by a total of authors, including Johnson & Briggs (1984), that identified 14 tribes or even clades in the Myrtaceae, & encountered the Myrtoideae to exist as polyphyletic. The molecular analysis by Wilson, O'Brien et. al. (2001) incurred eleven hard groupings in a personal, including numbers of of the groupings identified by Johnson & Briggs. More molecular analysis by Sytsma & Litt (2002) noticed that a Neotropic Myrtoideae grouping healthy in a paraphyletic Leptopermoideae.

A genera Heteropyxis and Psiloxylon, which some authorities include within Myrtaceae, come on text set when separate families, according to grounds to believe of their tsv divergence prior to a origin of the most common ancestor of the Myrtaceae.

Genera

Acca Accara Acmena Acmenosperma Actinodium Agonis Allosyncarpia Amomyrtella Amomyrtus Angasomyrtus Angophora Archirhodomyrtus Arillastrum Astartea Asteromyrtus Austromyrtus Backhousia Baeckea Balaustion Barongia Basisperma Beaufortia Blepharocalyx Callistemon Calothamnus Calycolpus Calycorectes Calyptranthes Calyptrogenia Calythropsis Calytrix Campomanesia Carpolepis Chamelaucium Chamguava Choricarpia Cleistocalyx Cloezia Conothamnus Corymbia Corynanthera Cupheanthus

Darwinia Decaspermum Eremaiea Eucalyptopsis Eucalyptus Eugenia Feijoa (Acca) Gomidesia Hexachlamys Homalocalyx Homalospermum Homoranthus Hottea Hypocalymma Kania Kjellbergiodendron Kunzea Lamarchea Legrandia Leptospermum Lindsayomyrtus Lophomyrtus Lophostemon Luma Lysicarpus Mallostemon Marlierea Melaleuca Meteoromyrtus Metrosideros Micromyrtus Mitranthes Mitrantia Monimiastrum Mosiera Myrceugenia Myrcia Myrcianthes Myrciaria Myrrhinium Myrtastrum Myrtella

Myrteola Myrtus Neofabricia Neomitranthes Neomyrtus Ochrosperma Octamyrtus Osbornia Paramyrciaria Pericalymma Phymatocarpus Pileanthus Pilidiostigma Piliocalyx Pimenta Pleurocalyptus Plinia Pseudanamomis Psidium Purpureostemon Regelia Rhodamnia Rhodomyrtus Rinzia Ristantia Scholtzia Siphoneugena Sphaerantia Stereocaryum Syncarpia Syzigium Tepualia Thryptomene Tristania Tristianopsis Ugni Uromyrtus Verticordia Waterhousea Welchiodendron Whiteodendron Xanthomyrtus Xanthostemon