page_title: Meryta
section_title: External links
hierarchical_section_title: Meryta / External links
caption_attribution_description: Foliage of Meryta denhamii, from a tree growing in cultivation at Manukau City, New Zealand
context_page_description: Meryta is a genus in the flowering plant family Araliaceae. There are 28 described species in the genus and a number of undescribed species, all small, resinous trees of the subtropical and tropical Pacific Ocean, characterized by huge, simple leaves and a dioecious sexual system, a unique combination in Araliaceae. Meryta has its center of diversity in New Caledonia. Phylogenetic analyses have placed Meryta as a monophyletic genus in one of the three major clades of the Araliaciae, the Polyscias-Pseudopanax group, and more specifically in the Pacific Schefflera subclade.
caption: Foliage of the New Caledonian species Meryta denhamii
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