Myoporum

Myoporum
Myoporum
Naio (Myoporum sandwicense)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Scrophulariaceae
Tribe: Myoporeae
Genus: Myoporum
Sol. ex G.Forst.[1]
Species

See text.

Myoporum is a genus of flowering plants in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae (formerly placed in Myoporaceae). There are about 32 species within the genus, which is spread from Mauritius, across Australia to the Pacific Islands and up to China.

Selected species

Formerly placed here

References

  1. ^ "Myoporum Sol. ex G. Forst.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2006-04-20. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?7897. Retrieved 2011-02-06. 
  2. ^ a b "GRIN Species Records of Myoporum". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?7897. Retrieved 2011-02-06.