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Myristicaceae, a myristicaceae, occurs as family of flowering plants in the order Magnoliales, including 19 genera and about 440 species of shrubs and trees. the personal has a pantropic distribution.

1 genus, Myristica, a Nutmegs, is of commercial importance as a spice.

;Genera Bicniba Brochoneura Cephalosphaera Coelocaryon Compsoneura Endocomia Gymnacranthera Haematodendron Horsfieldia Iryanthera Knema Mauloutchia Myristica Osteophloeum Otoba Pycnanthus Scyphocephalium Staudtia Virola

Description of Myristicaceae
Habit and leaf form; Anatomy; Morphology; Physiology; Biochemistry; Geography.






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