Myrtaceae
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Myrtaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Trees or shrubs, with simple, usually opposite and entire, pellucid punctate, estipulate leaves, the regular and perfect, often bracteolate flowers mostly panieled. Calyx-tube (hypanthium) adnate to the ovary, the limb usually 4-5-cleft. Petals usually 4 or 5, imbricated, rarely wanting. Disc mostly annular and fleshy. Stamens usually numerous, sometimes only as many as the petals; filaments filiform, distinct, or united at the base; anthers small, 2-celled. Ovary inferior, 2-several-celled, or rarely 1-celled, style simple; stigma terminal, small; ovules usually 2-several in each cavity. Fruit drupaceous or baccate, often crowned by the calyx limb, or in some genera capsular. Seeds various; endosperm usually wanting. About 60 genera, including over 1700 species, mostly tropical in distribution.