
Myricaceae is a small family of dicotyledonous shrubs and small trees in the order Fagales. Its type genus is Myrica, the sweet gales. There are three genera in the family, although some botanists separate many species from Myrica into a fourth genus Morella. About 55 species are usually accepted in Myrica (with Morella included), one in Canacomyrica, and one in Comptonia.
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General: and molecular analyses, the Myricaceae are closely affiliated Appearance: Key differences from similar families: The Myricaceae could
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Myricaceae is a small family of dicotyledonous shrubs and small trees in the order Fagales. Its type genus is Myrica, the sweet gales. There are three genera in the family, although some botanists separate many species from Myrica into a fourth genus Morella. About 55 species are usually accepted in Myrica (with Morella included), one in Canacomyrica, and one in Comptonia.
Well-known members of this family include bayberry and sweetfern. Canacomyrica Guillaumin 1940 Comptonia L'Hér. 1789 Myrica L. 1753 (includes Morella Lour. 1790)
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).