Pleurocalyptus

Pleurocalyptus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Pleurocalyptus
Brongn. & Gris

Pleurocalyptus is a group of shrubs and small trees in the Myrtaceae family, first described as a genus in 1868.[1][2] The entire genus is endemic to New Caledonia.[3][4]

species
  1. Pleurocalyptus austrocaledonicus (Guillaumin) J.W.Dawson
  2. Pleurocalyptus pancheri (Brongn. & Gris) J.W.Dawson

References

  1. Brongniart, Adolphe Théodore & Gris, Jean Antoine Arthur. 1868. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 14: 264-268 in Latin
  2. Tropicos, Pleurocalyptus Brongn. & Gris
  3. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. Govaerts, R., Sobral, N., Ashton, P., Barrie, F., Holst, B.K., Landrum, L.L., Matsumoto, K., Fernanda Mazine, F., Nic Lughadha, E., Proença, C. & al. (2008). World Checklist of Myrtaceae: 1-455. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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