Xanthostemon

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xanthostemon is a genus of plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. It contains 45 species and has a wide distribution including the Philippines, New Guinea, Australia, Indonesia and New Caledonia. Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. They include familiar organisms such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The scientific study of plants, known as botany, has identified about 350,000 extant species of plants, defined as seed plants, bryophytes, ferns and fern allies. As of 2004, some 287,655 species had been identified, of which 258,650 are flowering and 18,000 bryophytes (see table below).