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Taxonomy

Notes:

Publishing author: Ridl. Publication: in Journ. As. Soc. Straits, I. 116 (1908).

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]

Similar Species

Members of the genus Labisia:

There are approximately 27 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus: L. acuta · L. alata · L. humilis · L. longistyla · L. malouana · L. malouiana · L. neriifolia · L. obtusifolia · L. ovalifolia · L. paucifolia · L. posthumusiana · L. pothoina · L. pumila (Kacip Fatimah) · L. pumila Benth. & Hook.f. var. alata Scheff. · L. pumila f. sessilifolia · L. pumila var. alata · L. pumila var. discoplacenta · L. pumila var. lanceolata · L. pumila var. malintangensis · L. pumila var. neriifolia · L. pumila var. sessilifolia · L. punctata · L. serrulata · L. sessilifolia · L. smaragdina · L. steenisiana · L. sumatrensis

Members of the genus Jubilaria:

There are approximately 3 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus: J. magnoliifolia · J. porteana · J. radlkoferi

Bibliography

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

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Notes

Contributors:

• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.

Identifiers:

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15637040
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:588700-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1344011

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.