Flowers often showy, in dense di- or trichotomous terminal cymes, rarely axillary
Calyx 5-lobed; tube campanulate, funnel-shaped, or urceolate, ± adnate to base of ovary; lobes imbricate
Petals 5, spreading, longer than calyx lobes, obovate-spatulate, white
Stamens 20-30 or more, in 1-many series, much longer than petals, free; anthers versatile
Ovary usually semi-inferior, 3(4)-locular, with several to many ovules in each locule; style shorter than stamens; stigma truncate or capitate
Fruit a capsule, included in or shortly exserted from persistent calyx tube, 2- or 3(4)-locular
Seeds many in each locule; variously shaped
x = 11
Nomenclature:
Metrosideros Banks ex Gaertn.
Gaertner: 170, t. 34 (1788) name conserved
Sonder: 521 (1862)
Distribution & Notes:
Global: Species 60, mostly Australia, New Zealand, Malay Archipelago and associated islands
Southern Africa: Species 1: Metrosideros angustifolia (L.) J.E.Sm., Western Cape as far north as Clanwilliam and Ceres Districts
References:
GAERTNER, J. 1788. De fructibus et seminibus plantarum. Academia Carolina, Stuttgart
SONDER, O.W. 1862. Myrtaceae. Flora capensis 2
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