Common Names
Common Names in English:
Lilly-Pilly, Narrow-Leaved Lilly Pilly
Description
Family Myrtaceae
Trees
or shrubs
, evergreen
, usually with essential oils-containing cavities in foliage
, branchlets
, and flowers. Stipules absent or small and caducous
. Leaves opposite, occasionally alternate, occasionally ternate
or pseudo-whorled; leaf blade
with secondary veins pinnate or basal, often with intramarginal veins
near margin
, margin usually entire. Inflorescences axillary
or terminal
, cymose
but variously arranged, 1- to many-flowered. Flowers bisexual
, sometimes polygamous, actinomorphic
. Hypanthium usually adnate
to ovary and prolonged above it. Calyx lobes
(3 or) 4 or 5 or more, distinct
or connate
into a calyptra. Petals 4 or 5, sometimes absent, distinct or connate into a calyptra, sometimes coherent and pseudocalyptrate. Stamens usually numerous
, in 1 to several whorls; filaments
distinct or connate into 5 bundles opposite petals; anthers
2-celled, dorsifixed
or basifixed
, dehiscing longitudinally or rarely terminally; connectives
usually terminating in 1 or more apical glands
. Ovary inferior, semi-inferior, or very rarely superior, carpels 2 to more, locules 1 to many, pseudoseptum sometimes present, placentation usually axile
but occasionally parietal
; ovules 1 to several per locule. Style single; stigma single. Fruit a capsule, berry, drupaceous
berry, or drupe, 1- to many-seeded. Seeds without endosperm or endosperm sparse and thin; testa cartilaginous
or thinly membranous, sometimes absent; embryo straight or curved
.
About 130 genera and 4500-5000 species: Mediterranean region, sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, tropical
and temperate
Asia, Australia, Pacific islands, tropical and South America; 10 genera (five introduced
) and 121 species (50 endemic, 32 introduced treated here) in China.
Many Myrtaceae are cultivated garden ornamentals
, street trees, or plantation trees. Some members
of tribe
Syzygieae are grown as fruit crops. In addition to the cultivated members of the family
treated here, some others grown in China include Acca sellowiana (O. Berg
) Burrett (Feijoa sellowiana (O. Berg) O. Berg), Myrtus communis Linnaeus, and Syncarpia glomulifera (Smith) Niedenzu.[1]
Physical Description
Habit: Evergreen .
Flowers: Bloom Period: April, May. • Flower Color: near white, white
Size/Age/Growth
Size: 20-30' tall.
Biology
Growth
Culture: Space 15-20' apart.
Soil: Minimum pH: 5.6 • Maximum pH: 7.8
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade.
Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 11. (map)
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : Merr. & L.M.Perry Publication : Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 1938 (28 Jan. 1938) Basionym author: (Poir.)An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Acmena
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 47 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
A. acuminatissima · A. australis · A. brachyandra · A. bracteolata · A. brassii · A. caudata · A. championi · A. championii · A. chinensis · A. claviflora · A. dispansa · A. divaricata · A. elliptica · A. floribunda · A. floribunda var. elliptica · A. fluvicola · A. gerrardii · A. grata · A. graveolens · A. hemilampra · A. hemilampra orophila · A. hemilampra subsp. hemilampra · A. hemilampra subsp. orophila · A. hololampra · A. ingens · A. inophylla · A. kingii · A. laevifolia · A. lanceolata · A. leptantha · A. mackinnoniana · A. macrocarpa · A. melanosticta · A. montana · A. oblata · A. parviflora · A. pendula · A. polyantha · A. resa · A. smithii (Narrow-Leaved Lilly Pilly) · A. smithii 'Lilly Pilly' · A. smithii var. minor · A. smithii var. smithii · A. sorongensis · A. triphlebia · A. wightiana · A. zeylanica
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Further Reading
- Chang Hung-ta & Miau Ru-hwai. 1984. Myrtaceae. In: Chen Chieh, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 53(1): 28-135.
Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 15, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 6 providers.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 15, 2008:
- Australian National Herbarium (CANB)
- Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
- National Herbarium of New South Wales: NSW herbarium collection
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3469885
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15639038
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:86225-3
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 590543-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 955790
Footnotes
- Jie Chen & Lyn A. Craven "Myrtaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 321. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
