Exotic

Uncertain

New Zealand

Political Region

Miller, E. (2019)

Amomyrtus luma has appeared on a few plant labels and lists in New Zealand but, despite attempting to track down such records in botanic gardens and nurseries, and checking with several experienced plants people, I have not been able to locate any live material still growing here. A record under the name Amomyrtus luma at Auckland Botanic Gardens has been re-identified as Luma apiculata (Emma Bodley, pers. comm.) and there have been re-identifications elsewhere. New Zealand-sourced herbarium specimens of only one tree of Amomyrtus luma have been located, collected by Bill Sykes (collection number 277/65) from Eastwoodhill Arboretum, and initially named Myrtus lechleriana. Allan Herbarium specimens (CHR 157426A–C) were collected in January 1965 (in fruit), October 1968 (in flower), and October 1972 (in flower), with the comment “flowers 5-merous”. A specimen is also held in the Auckland Museum Herbarium, also collected October 1972 (AK 224717). It is likely to have been from the plant listed in 1972 as Myrtus lechleriana, now a synonym of Amomyrtus luma, in an Eastwoodhill Arboretum catalogue (Eastwoodhill Arboretum Catalogue, 1972, unpublished list).

Exotic

Uncertain

New Zealand

Political Region

Miller, E. (2020)

Amomyrtus luma (luma); S. America (has been confused with Luma apiculata) (current presence in NZ not verified).

Amomyrtus luma (Molina) D.Legrand & Kausel

Chile

Amomyrtus luma (Molina) D.Legrand & Kausel

Ireland