Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-654.14.00
Myrtaceae
English: Myrtle family.
Botany: hairs simple, one or 2 celled; terpenes.
Content: monoterpenes, eucalyptol; sesquiterpenes, caryophyllene, cadinene; phenylpropanoids; tannins.
Clades: Myrtales; Myrtidae; Malvanae; Angiospermae; Plants.
Taxonomy
Myrtaceae is the main Family in Myrtales in the Apg3 classification. It gives the Order its name.
In the Plant theory it is treated in the same way and placed in Subphase 4.
Tribes
Corymbieae is a Tribe in Myrtaceae.