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Wood Anatomy of Myrtaceae

A scalariform perforation plate in Ugni; softening wood samples; microtome sectioning. © Eve Lucas

An investigation of the wood anatomy of Myrtaceae is timely, since recent molecular phylogenetic analysis has elucidated many of the generic relationships in Myrtaceae, enabling us to put wood anatomical data in a phylogenetic context. There is already much published information on the wood anatomy of some commercial timbers of Myrtaceae, such as the very large genus Eucalyptus, but little information on many less commonly exploited taxa from the South American tribe Myrteae and the Australian shrubby tribe Chamelaucieae. We are therefore concentrating on collecting data for these less well known taxa.

An account of the wood anatomy of Myrtaceae will be published in Anatomy of the Dicotyledons vol. V, which is due for completion in 2007, together with a paper on wood anatomy of Chamelaucieae.

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