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Meryta macrophylla (Meryta macrophylla)

Description

Meryta macrophylla is a shrub was already described and the name validly published by Asa Gray based on a prior description by William Rich. It was Berthold Carl Seemann, however, who reclassified it into todays valid botanical systematics in 1862 is a species in the genus Meryta which contains approximately 27 to 30 species and belongs to the family of the Araliaceae (Ginseng Family).

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum: Magnoliophyta

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Apiales

            • Family: Araliaceae

              • Genus: Meryta