1 "Leaves opposite or in whorls" 2 1 "Leaves alternate" 44 2 "Longest leaves less than 40 mm long" 3 2 "Longest leaves more than 40 mm long" 20 3 "Flowers with 8 undifferentiated perianth segments; shrub confined to mangroves" Osbornia 3 "Flowers with 4 or 5 petals, and 4 or 5 sepals; shrubs or trees not occurring in mangrove communities" 4 4 "Fruits fleshy, a berry" 5 4 "Fruits dry, capsular or indehiscent" 8 5 "Fruits with a bony endocarp; flowers pink" Lithomyrtus 5 "Fruits lacking bony endocarp; flowers white" 6 6 "Mature fruits grey with many dark speckles" Austromyrtus 6 "Mature fruits purple to black, without speckles" 7 7 "Petals short; seed testa hard and bony" Uromyrtus 7 "Petals long; seed testa soft, tuberculate" Pilidiostigma 8 "Fruits capsular, 2-3 locular" 9 8 "Fruits indehiscent, 1(-2) locular" 16 9 "Stamens fused into bundles or ‘claws’" Melaleuca 9 "Stamens all free" 10 10 "Branchlets hairy; stamens longer than petals" Kunzea 10 "Branchlets glabrous; stamens shorter than petals" 11 11 "Ovules and seeds reniform, not angular" 12 11 "Ovules and seeds D-shaped, angular" 13 12 "Ovules 2 per loculus; stamens 5-8; seeds arillate" Ochrosperma 12 "Ovules 8-13 per loculus; stamens 14-18; seeds not arillate" Triplarina 13 "Inflorescences 3-7 flowered" Sannantha 13 "Inflorescences 1-flowered" 14 14 "Anthers versatile, dehiscing by long parallel slits" Baeckea 14 "Anthers adnate, dehiscing by pores or short divergent slits" 15 15 "Sepals without dorsal appendage; leaves linear; capsule apex flat" Harmogia 15 "Sepals with dorsal appendage; leaves oblanceolate to orbicular; capsule apex convex" Kardomia 16 "Stamens >30, in several whorls" Backhousia 16 "Fertile stamens 12 or fewer" 17 17 "Stamens ten and staminodes ten" 18 17 "Stamens usually 5, rarely 6, 10 or 12, staminodes absent; sepal apex obtuse, entire" 19 18 "Corolla tube long; sepal apex a single filament or 2-12 linear divisions, rarely obtuse; petals entire" Homoranthus 18 "Corolla tube absent or short; sepals divided into many plumose segments; petals fimbriate" Verticordia 19 "Stamens opposite the petals; ovules 4-9" Micromyrtus 19 "Stamens opposite the sepals; ovules 2" Thryptomene 20 "Fruit a fleshy, indehiscent berry" 21 20 "Fruits dry, capsular or indehiscent" 35 21 "Seed solitary, occasionally two" 22 21 "Seeds 2-numerous per fruit" 26 22 "Vegetative buds and flower buds pubescent" Eugenia 22 "Vegetative buds and flower buds glabrous" 23 23 "Anther cells globose and divergent" Acmena 23 "Anther cells linear, parallel" 24 24 "Petals 6-8" Acmenosperma 24 "Petals 4-5" 25 25 "Ovules pendulous" Waterhousea 25 "Ovules radiating or ascending" Syzygium 26 "Bark smooth, shiny, deciduous, white, pink, orange or green" 27 26 "Bark rough, fibrous or scaly, dull, persistent, grey to brown" 28 27 "Mature fruits 30-50 mm diameter, yellow to red; seeds >10" Psidium 27 "Mature fruits 3-19 mm diameter, purple to black; seeds 1-8" Gossia 28 "Leaves strongly 3-veined from base" 29 28 "Leaves with distinct intramarginal veins, but not strongly 3-veined" 31 29 "Ovary 1-locular; flowers 4-merous" Rhodamnia 29 "Ovary 2-4-locular; flowers (4-) 5-merous" 30 30 "Branchlets and leaves glabrous or very sparsely hairy" Archirhodomyrtus 30 "Branchlets and leaves moderately to densely hairy" Rhodomyrtus 31 "Stigma small, not dilated" 32 31 "Stigma peltate, dilated" 34 32 "Flowers and fruits pendant, solitary in leaf axils" Uromyrtus 32 "Flowers and fruits ascending, in small racemes or panicles, rarely solitary" 33 33 "Ovary 3-4-locular; placenta apically or subapically attached" Lenwebbia 33 "Ovary 2-locular; placenta attached at midpoint or lower" Gossia 34 "Testa membranous, glandular-tuberculate" Pilidiostigma 34 "Testa hard, not tuberculate" Decaspermum 35 "Stamens grouped into bundles or staminal ‘claws’" 36 35 "Stamens all free from one another" 38 36 "Leaves in whorls of four" Lophostemon 36 "Leaves opposite" 37 37 "Flowers yellow; staminal fascicles much longer than petals; seeds 3-angled at distal end" Barongia 37 "Flowers white; staminal fascicles about same length as petals; seeds irregularly ovoid" Sphaerantia 38 "Leaves linear, <4 mm wide" Lysicarpus 38 "Leaves lanceolate to orbicular, 10-70 mm wide" 39 39 "Fruit indehiscent, enclosed in persistent hypanthium" Backhousia 39 "Fruit dehiscent, capsular, 2-6-locular" 40 40 "Inflorescences 3-flowered or 7-flowered on long peduncles, flowers sessile" 41 40 "Inflorescence a many-flowered terminal panicle or corymb; flowers pedicellata" 42 41 "Inflorescence 3-flowered; hypanthium splitting into 4 segments at anthesis" Stockwellia 41 "Inflorescence 7-flowered; hypanthium not splitting at anthesis" Syncarpia 42 "Capsule protruding well beyond hypanthium" Xanthostemon 42 "Capsule not protruding from hypanthium" 43 43 "Flowers bright yellow; stamens 5-8" Thaleropia 43 "Flowers white or creamy; stamens >50" Angophora 44 "Petals and sepals fused in an operculum, deciduous at anthesis" 45 44 "Petals and sepals present as distinct whorls, not forming an operculum" 46 45 "Juvenile plants with bristle glands; adult leaves with 30-90 pairs of lateral veins" Corymbia 45 "Juvenile plants lacking bristle glands; adult leaves with 10-40 pairs of lateral veins" Eucalyptus 46 "Fruit indehiscent or splitting irregularly" 47 46 "Fruit dehiscent, capsular" 49 47 "Ovary 3-locular; fruit not enclosed by hypanthium, indehiscent or splitting irregularly; leaves 10-17 cm long" Lindsayomyrtus 47 "Ovary 1-locular; fruit enclosed within persistent hypanthium, indehiscent; leaves 0.2-1 cm long" 48 48 "Sepals terminated by a long slender filament" Calytrix 48 "Sepals short, obtuse" Homalocalyx 49 "Stamens longer than petals" 50 49 "Stamens same length as petals or shorter than petals" 53 50 "Stamens basally connate into bundles" 51 50 "Stamens all free from each other" 52 51 "Filaments (free portion) clustered at distal end; seed winged; fruits fused into a globose head" Asteromyrtus 51 "Filaments (free portion) distributed along much of the stamen length; seeds not winged; fruit arrangement various, but fruits not fused" Melaleuca 52 "Capsule more or less globose, greatly exceeding the hypanthium" Xanthostemon 52 "Capsule not globular, and not exceeding the hypanthium" Kunzea 53 "Stamens fused into fascicles" 54 53 "Stamens all free from each other" 56 54 "Capsule included within the hypanthium or barely exserted; seeds linear, without a wing" Lophostemon 54 "Capsule strongly exserted from the hypanthium; seeds ovoid, wing membranous or reduced to a spur" 55 55 "Summit of capsule hemispherical; oil ducts absent from petiole" Tristaniopsis 55 "Summit of capsule conical; oil ducts present in petiole" Welchiodendron 56 "Inflorescence a many-flowered, rainforest habitat; leaves > 5 cm wide" 57 56 "Inflorescences solitary or up to 12-flowered, open forest habitat; leaves < 2 cm wide" 58 57 "Ovary 3-locular; capsule rounded, valves strongly lignified" Ristantia 57 "Ovary 2-locular; capsule conical, valves lightly lignified" Mitrantia 58 "Flowers 3-12 per inflorescence" 59 58 "Flowers solitary, or occasionally 2 together" 60 59 "Sepals deciduous in fruit; flowers and fruits sessile in globose heads (Asteromyrtus lysicephala)" Asteromyrtus 59 "Sepals persistent in fruit; flowers and fruits sessile in ellipsoidal heads, or pedunculate and 3-flowered" Aggreflorum 60 "Seeds with a single broad wing; stamens >30, anthers non-versatile" Neofabricia 60 "Seeds not winged; stamens 15-30, anthers versatile" 61 61 "Fruit persistent, woody; seeds linear, striate; sepals deciduous" Leptospermum 61 "Fruit deciduous, not woody; seeds narrowly ovoid with a reticulate surface; sepals persistent" Gaudium