Myrtaceae

family of plants
Taxon taxon Q156563
Myrtaceae
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Summary

Myrtaceae is a taxon[1]. Myrtaceae ranks in the top 0.68% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,945 views/month, #1,320 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Myrtales[4], Myrtiflorae[5], Myrtineae[6]
  • Taxon name: Myrtaceae[7]
  • Commons category: Myrtaceae[8]
  • Taxonomic type: Myrtus[9]
  • Start time: -22000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Myrtaceae[11]
  • Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[14], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[15], Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 53(1)[16], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[17]
  • Taxon synonym: Heteropyxidaceae[18], Psiloxylaceae[19]
  • GRIN URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomyfamily.aspx?id=751[20]
  • Taxon common name: Mirtáceas[21], Myrttikasvit[22], Myrtenplaanten[23], Мирти[24], Mirteachtigen[25], Миртовые[26], Mersingiller[27], Миртові[28], 桃金孃科[29], วงศ์ชมพู่[30], 桃金娘科[31], mirtovke[32]
  • Has fruit type: capsule[33], berry[34]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[35]

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Identifiers

Myrtaceae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 51816[36]. Myrtaceae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 3931[37]. Myrtaceae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 8095[38]. Myrtaceae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 5014[39]. Myrtaceae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 27172[40].

Why It Matters

Myrtaceae has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] Myrtaceae is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien (ed. 9). wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Summary of recent systems of angiosperm classification. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [37] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [40] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [38] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [39] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [30] ↑ . panmai.com. panmai.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [31] ↑ . Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 53(1). wikidata.org.
  34. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [41] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [42] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7w ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Apni id → 54484
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  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → taxon
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    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Topic's main category → Category:Myrtaceae
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