Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Araliaceae
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Meryta J.R.Forst. & G.Forst., Char. Gen. Pl. 60 (1775)
 Description

Plants dioec. or polygamodioec.; ♂ with 3–5 minute calyx-teeth, 4–5 or occ. more valvate petals.. ♀ with ovary 3-several-loculed; style branches us. 5, connate at base. Fr. fleshy. Small ± resinous trees, mainly of New Caledonia, with members in Polynesia and Melanesia; one sp. in Queensland; the N.Z. sp. endemic.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Number of species in New Zealand within Meryta J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)1
Total1
 Bibliography
Forster, J.R.; Forster, G. 1775: Characteres Generum Plantarum:quas in itinere ad insulas maris Australis, collegerunt, descripserunt, delinearunt, annis 1772-1775. Edition 1. London.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.