6313.000 Myrsine L.

Description of the genus

Shrubs or small trees. Leaves numerous, small, crowded, not confined to branch apices, often with a crenate or serrate margin and with translucent glands in the lamina. Flowers 4-5-merous, in axillary fascicles. Sepals and petals with resin-dots, often ciliate at the margin. Ovary glabrous. Style discoid. Fruit a spherical 1-seeded drupe.

Worldwide: 5 species in the Azores, Africa and Asia

Mozambique: 1 taxon.

Myrsine africana

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
africana L.N,Z,MSDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Myrsine:

Our websites:

Flora of Malawi: Myrsine
Flora of Zambia: Myrsine
Flora of Zimbabwe: Myrsine

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Myrsine
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Myrsine
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Myrsine
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Myrsine
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Myrsine
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Myrsine
JSTOR Plant Science: Myrsine
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Myrsine
Plants of the World Online: Myrsine
Tropicos: Myrsine
Wikipedia: Myrsine

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Myrsine.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1060, retrieved 28 March 2024

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