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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Meryta J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

MERYTA J. R. et G. Forst., 1776

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.

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