''Eucalyptopsis'' is a genus of describing two species of trees, constituting part of the plant family Myrtaceae and included in the

eucalypt Eucalypt is a descriptive name for woody plants with capsule fruiting bodies belonging to seven closely related genera (of the tribe Eucalypteae) found across Australasia: ''Eucalyptus'', ''Corymbia'', ''Angophora'', '' Stockwellia'', ''Allosyn ...

s group. They have botanical records of growing naturally in

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torr ...

and the

Moluccas The Maluku Islands (; Indonesian: ''Kepulauan Maluku'') or the Moluccas () are an archipelago in the east of Indonesia. Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone. Geographically they are located ...

, within the

Malesia Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms, and also a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical Kingdom. It has been given different definitions. Th ...

region. Plant geneticists have found their closest evolutionary relatives in the monotypic genera and species ''Stockwellia quadrifida'' and ''Allosyncarpia ternata''.

Species

* ''Eucalyptopsis alauda'' – New Guinea incl. Woodlark Island ::Synonym: ''Eucalyptopsis'' sp. aff. ''papuana'' (1951) * ''Eucalyptopsis papuana'' – New Guinea, Moluccas

References

Myrtaceae genera Myrtaceae Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Australasian realm flora {{Myrtaceae-stub