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Taxonomy

Notes:

Publishing author: Lundell Publication: Wrightia 7(2): 46 (1982) 1982

Physical Description

Family Myrsinaceae:

Trees, shrubs, climbers [or rarely herbs]. Leaves simple, alternate, rarely opposite or whorled, without stipules, often glandular. Inflorescences terminal, axillary, or at apices of lateral branches, racemose (often paniculate), corymbose, cymose, umbellate, or fascicled on scaly spur branches in leaf axils. Flowers bisexual or polygamous, rarely unisexual and plants polygamodioecious or dioecious, 4- or 5(or 6) -merous, actinomorphic. Sepals basally connate or free, persistent, usually glandular. Petals basally connate or rarely free, usually glandular. Stamens as many as and opposite to petals, usually adnate to base or throat of corolla tube, sometimes free, rarely united into a tube; anthers 2-celled, dorsifixed, dehiscing longitudinally or by apical slits or pores, rarely transversely septate; filaments present or absent. Ovary superior, rarely inferior to half-inferior, 1-celled; placentation free-central, sometimes basal; ovules 1 to several in 11 to many rows, usually embedded in placenta, anatropous or semicampylotropous. Style 1; stigma simple or lobed. Fruit drupes with fleshy exocarp or capsules. Seeds 1 to many; endosperm fleshy or horny; embryo x = 10-13, 23.

About 42 genera and more than 2,200 species: primarily in tropical and subtropical or warm temperate regions of both hemispheres; five genera and 120 species (51 endemic) in China.

Chinese genera of economic value include Ardisia (medicine, oil, edible, wild vegetables), Maesa (edible, tea, dye), Aegiceras (tannin, fine fuel), Embelia (vermifuge, edible), Myrsine (medicine, fine wood, tannin, fuel) .^[1]

Distribution

Range and Population

Veracruz (Mexico, Northern America)

Similar Species

Members of the genus Ibarraea:

There are approximately 11 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus: I. avendanoi · I. dichropetala · I. karwinskyana · I. leucocarpa · I. lindenii · I. matudae · I. mayana · I. paschalis · I. petenensis · I. tonii · I. wendtii

Members of the genus Icacorea:

There are approximately 159 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them: I. acuminata · I. acuminifolia · I. aequilonga · I. alajuelae · I. albipetala · I. alstonii · I. amanuensis · I. angustifolia · I. antonensis · I. apoda · I. aurantiaca · I. bahamenis · I. baracoensis · I. baruana · I. bawae · I. bekomiensis · I. belizensis · I. borbonica · I. brasiliensis · I. brevipes · I. brevis · I. burgeri · I. calvarioana · I. campanensis · I. capollina · I. catharinensis · I. caudatifolia · I. chahalana · I. chiriquiensis · I. chocoana · I. clavelligera · I. compressa · I. conzattii · I. cookii · I. copeyana · I. costaricensis · I. crassa · I. crenipetala · I. crosbyi · I. cuspidata · I. decumbens · I. deminuta · I. dentata · I. denticulata · I. digitata · I. dukei · I. duripetala · I. edwardsii · I. eugenioides · I. fendleri · I. fluminensis · I. foreroi · I. foveolata · I. fruticosa · I. furfuracella · I. geniculata · I. gorgonae · I. grammisticta · I. granatensis · I. guanacastensis · I. guancheana · I. guianensis · I. guinealensis · I. hamiltonii · I. hatoana · I. herbert-smithii · I. hintonii · I. huallagae · I. humboldtii · I. humilis · I. ibaguensis · I. insularis · I. irasuensis · I. irazuensis · I. ixcanensis · I. jaliscensis · I. jamaicensis · I. jefeana · I. kallunkii · I. karwinskyana · I. laevigata · I. lajana · I. lasseri · I. latisepala · I. liebmannii · I. lindenii · I. longicaudata · I. loretensis · I. maasolae · I. manglillo · I. martinensis · I. matagalpana · I. maxonii · I. metensis · I. microcalyx · I. minima · I. minutiflora · I. mombachoana · I. monteverdeana · I. morii

Bibliography

• Chen Chieh. 1979. Myrsinaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 58: 1-147.

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Notes

Contributors:

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 20, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.

Data Sources:

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 20, 2007:

• The New York Botanical Garden, Vascular Plant Type Specimens

Identifiers:

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15636878
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:900103-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1089008

Footnotes:

1. Jie Chen & John J. Pipoly, III "Myrsinaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 1. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.