Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Ericales Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Primulaceae
Genus
Myrsine L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Myrsine oliveri Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 543 (1961)
Synonymy:
  • = Suttonia dentata W.R.B.Oliver, Rec. Auckland Inst. Mus. 3: 230 (1948)
  • = Rapanea dentata W.R.B.Oliver, Rec. Auckland Inst. Mus. 4: 111 (1951)
 Description

Tree up to c. 6m. tall; bark smooth, greyish; branchlets stiff, divergent. Lvs on rather stout flat petioles 5–6–(10) mm. long. Lamina coriac., scaberulous when young, (3)–5–10 × (1·5)–3–4 cm., obovate to elliptic, rounded or slightly emarginate at apex; margins thickened; irregularly dentate in upper part. Infl. of dense, cymose fascicles; pedicels glab., ± 2.5 mm. long. Calyx-lobes 5, narrow; petals 5, free, elliptic, acute, fimbriate. Stamens 5, opp. petals; stigma capitate. Fr. subturbinate-globose, ± 5–7 mm. diam.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
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de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Naturally Uncommon]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Naturally Uncommon]
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