English: Nutmeg family.
French: Myristicacees.
Members: 20 genera, Bicuiba, Brochoneura, Cephalosphaera, Coelocaryon, Compsoneura, Doyleanthus, Endocomia, Gymnacranthera, Haematodendron, Horsfieldia, Iryanthera, Knema, Mauloutchia, Myristica, Neobrochoneura, Osteophloeum, Otoba, Paramyristica, Pycnanthus, Scyphocephalium, Staudtia, Virola.
Habitat: tropical, lowland rain forest.
BotanyTrees.
Stem: red sap.
Leaves distichous.
Flowers unisexual, dioecious; sepals 0; petals 3; stamens fused; .
Fruit: 2 valved.
Seeds: with a red, orange aril and ruminate endosperm.
DD:
Subphase 6;
Phase 4;
Hydrogen series;
Carbon series.