Flora Malesiana
Subtitle: Series I - Seed Plants, Volume 14. Myristicaceae
By: edited by Peter Stevens
Edition: Re-published online edition
Series: Flora Malesiana
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Sofia, Bulgaria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 622
ISBN-13: 9789546427311
Copyright date: This is an open access book distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
First sentence: A pantropical family of trees, in Malesia represented by six genera: Endocomia (4 species), Gymnacranthera (6), Horsfieldia (97), Knema (75, only one species in New Guinea), Myristica (152, of which the majority endemic to New Guinea), and Paramyristica (1, Papua New Guinea). Altogether there are 335 species of the family in the Malesian area. Some species are of economic importance, for instance Myristica fragrans, nutmeg.
Description: Contains the taxonomic revision of one family, Myristicaceae, for Malesia, i.e. the area covering the countries Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea.
Notes: Revisionary Monograph