Myrsine oliveri Allan

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Name scientific

Myrsine oliveri Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 543 (1961)

Preferred name

Myrsine oliveri Allan

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Allan

Authors

Allan

Publication place

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

Year published

1961

Publication page

543

Nomenclatural status

replacement name

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Myrsine oliveri Allan

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Myrsine oliveri

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Ericales

Family

Primulaceae

Genus

Myrsine

Species

oliveri

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Myrsine oliveri Allan

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.

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