Common Names
Common Names in English:
Alpine Bottlebrush, River Bottlebrush
Description
Family Myrtaceae
Trees
or shrubs
, evergreen
, usually with essential oils-containing cavities in foliage
, branchlets
, and flowers. Stipules absent or small and caducous
. Leaves opposite, occasionally alternate, occasionally ternate
or pseudo-whorled; leaf blade
with secondary veins pinnate or basal, often with intramarginal veins
near margin
, margin usually entire. Inflorescences axillary
or terminal
, cymose
but variously arranged, 1- to many-flowered. Flowers bisexual
, sometimes polygamous, actinomorphic
. Hypanthium usually adnate
to ovary and prolonged above it. Calyx lobes
(3 or) 4 or 5 or more, distinct
or connate
into a calyptra. Petals 4 or 5, sometimes absent, distinct or connate into a calyptra, sometimes coherent and pseudocalyptrate. Stamens usually numerous
, in 1 to several whorls; filaments
distinct or connate into 5 bundles opposite petals; anthers
2-celled, dorsifixed
or basifixed
, dehiscing longitudinally or rarely terminally; connectives
usually terminating in 1 or more apical glands
. Ovary inferior, semi-inferior, or very rarely superior, carpels 2 to more, locules 1 to many, pseudoseptum sometimes present, placentation usually axile
but occasionally parietal
; ovules 1 to several per locule. Style single; stigma single. Fruit a capsule, berry, drupaceous
berry, or drupe, 1- to many-seeded. Seeds without endosperm or endosperm sparse and thin; testa cartilaginous
or thinly membranous, sometimes absent; embryo straight or curved
.
About 130 genera and 4500-5000 species: Mediterranean region, sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, tropical
and temperate
Asia, Australia, Pacific islands, tropical and South America; 10 genera (five introduced
) and 121 species (50 endemic, 32 introduced treated here) in China.
Many Myrtaceae are cultivated garden ornamentals
, street trees, or plantation trees. Some members
of tribe
Syzygieae are grown as fruit crops. In addition to the cultivated members of the family
treated here, some others grown in China include Acca sellowiana (O. Berg
) Burrett (Feijoa sellowiana (O. Berg) O. Berg), Myrtus communis Linnaeus, and Syncarpia glomulifera (Smith) Niedenzu.[1]
Physical Description
Habit: Evergreen .
Flowers: Bloom Period: April, May. • Flower Color: pale yellow
Size/Age/Growth
Size: 36-48" tall.
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,397 meters (0 to 4,583 feet).[2]
Biology
Growth
Culture: Space 36-48" apart.
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade.
Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b, 11. (map)
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Myrtanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Myrtales
()
- Reichenbach, 1828
- Suborder:
Myrtineae
()
-
- Family:
Myrtaceae
()
- Adans., 1763, Nom. Cons.
- Myrtle Family
- Subfamily:
Trollioideae
()
- Tribe:
Narcisseae
()
- Genus:
Callistemon
()
- R. Brown, in Flinders, 1814
- Specific epithet:
pityoides
- F.Muell.
- Botanical name: - Callistemon pityoides
- Specific epithet:
pityoides
- F.Muell.
- Genus:
Callistemon
(
- Tribe:
Narcisseae
(
- Subfamily:
Trollioideae
(
- Family:
Myrtaceae
(
- Suborder:
Myrtineae
(
- Order:
Myrtales
(
- Superorder:
Myrtanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author
: F.Muell. Publication
: The Chemist and Druggist, Australasian Supplement 5 1883 (15 Mar. 1883)An accepted name
in the RHS Horticultural Database.
An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Callistemon
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 186 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
C. acerosus · C. acuminatus (Bottlebrush) · C. amoenus · C. 'Awanga Dam' · C. 'Bob Bailey' · C. brachyandrus (Prickly Bottlebrush) · C. brevisepalum · C. brevisepalus · C. 'Burgundy' · C. 'Burning Bush' · C. buseanum · C. buseanus · C. 'Candy Pink' · C. 'Cane's Hybrid' (Bottlebrush) · C. capitatus · C. chisholmii · C. 'Cinderella' · C. citrinus (Crimson Bottlebrush) · C. citrinus 'Albus' · C. citrinus 'Angela' · C. citrinus 'Burning Bush' · C. citrinus 'Canberra' · C. citrinus 'Firebrand' · C. citrinus 'Little John' (Dwarf Bottlebrush) · C. citrinus (Curtis) Skeels 'Perth Pink' · C. citrinus purple · C. citrinus 'Reeves Pink' (Pink Bottle Brush) · C. citrinus 'Splendens' · C. citrinus var. splendens (Crimson Bottlebrush) · C. citrinus (Curtis) Skeels 'Violaceus' · C. citrinus 'White Anzac' · C. citrinus 'Yellow Queen' · C. coccineus · C. comboynensis (Comboyne Bottlebrush) · C. 'Coochy Coochy Station' · C. 'Country Park' · C. 'Country Sprite' · C. crassifolius · C. cucullatus · C. cunninghami · C. cunninghamii · C. 'Dawson River Weeper' · C. 'Demesne Rowena' · C. 'Eureka' · C. 'Flaming Fire' · C. flavescens · C. flavo-virens · C. flavovirens · C. for · C. formosum · C. formosus · C. forresterae · C. genofluvialis · C. 'Glasshouse Country' · C. 'Glasshouse Gem' · C. glaucus (Albany Bottlebrush) · C. gnidioides · C. hainesii · C. 'Hannah's Child' · C. 'Happy Valley' · C. 'Harkness' (Bottle Brush) · C. 'Horse Paddock' · C. hortensis · C. hybridus · C. 'Injune' · C. jeffersii · C. 'Jeffers' (Purple Bottle Brush Tree) · C. juniperinus · C. 'Kempsey' · C. kenmorrisonii · C. 'Kings Park Special' · C. laevifolius · C. laevis (Bottle Brush) · C. lanceolatum · C. lanceolatus · C. lilacinus · C. linearifolius (Narrow-Leaf Bottlebrush) · C. linearis (Narrow-Leaf Bottlebrush) · C. longifolius · C. lophanthus · C. lophothanus · C. macropunctatus · C. marginatus · C. 'Masotti' · C. 'Mauve Mist' · C. montanus · C. nervosus · C. 'Ngungun Red' · C. nyallingensis · C. pachyphyllus · C. pachyphyllus var. viridis · C. pallidus (Lemon Bottlebrush) · C. pallidus 'Candle Glow' · C. pallidus 'Eleanor' (Lemon Bottlebrush) · C. pallidus 'Father Christmas' · C. pallidus lilac · C. paludosus · C. paludosus pink · C. pancheri · C. pauciflorus
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Further Reading
- Chang Hung-ta & Miau Ru-hwai. 1984. Myrtaceae. In: Chen Chieh, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 53(1): 28-135.
Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 02, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 02, 2007:
- Australian National Herbarium
- , Australian National Herbarium
- National Herbarium of New South Wales, NSW herbarium collection
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5879253
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15639884
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:132054-3
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 132054-3
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 723762
Footnotes
- Jie Chen & Lyn A. Craven "Myrtaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 321. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Mean = 724.260 meters (2,376.181 feet), Standard Deviation = 365.420 based on 259 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
