Myrsine coxii Cockayne

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Name scientific

Myrsine coxii Cockayne, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 34: 318 (1901 [1902])

Preferred name

Myrsine coxii Cockayne

Taxonomy reference

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Cockayne

Authors

Cockayne

Publication place

Cockayne, L. 1902: A short account of the plant-covering of Chatham Island. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 34: 243–325.

Year published

1901

Year on publication

1902

Publication page

318

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Myrsine coxii Cockayne

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Myrsine coxii

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Ericales

Family

Primulaceae

Genus

Myrsine

Species

coxii

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Swamp mapou

Synonyms

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Myrsine coxii Cockayne

Description

Shrub up to ± 4 m. tall, with creeping underground stems emitting offset plants; bark dark brown; branchlets clad in stiff white hairs when young. Lvs on short petioles, sts clustered on short lateral branchlets. Lamina entire, coriac., 10-20 × 5-10 mm., obovate, cuneately narrowed to base, obtuse, sts retuse to emarginate; margin flat, ciliolate when young. Infl. of 1 fl. or 2-3 together; fls subsessile, pedicels elongating in fr. Calyx-lobes 4, deltoid, ciliolate; petals 4, free, obovate-oblong, ciliolate; stigma sessile, capitate. Fr. ± 6 mm. diam., globose, purplish.

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.