Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Myrsine salicina Heward ex Hook.f.

M. salicina Hew. ex Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1864, 184.

Suttonia salicina Hook f. Fl. Antarct. 1, 1844, 52.

Rapanea salicina (Hook. f.) Mez in Pflanzenr. 9, 1902, 370.

Tree up to 8 m. or more tall; bark very dark red to almost black. Lvs on stout flattened petioles up to 10 mm. long. Lamina 7-18 × 2-3 cm., narrow-elliptic to narrow-oblong, or almost linear, obtuse, very gradually tapering to base, coriac.; margins flat or slightly recurved. Infl. of ± dense fascicles ± 15-fld. Fls us. perfect, ± 3 mm. diam.; calyx-lobes 5, blunt, minutely ciliolate; petals oblong, revolute, often slightly connate at base. Fr. obovoid, (5)-8-9 mm. long, red to orange, 1-(2)-seeded; on pedicels up to ± 10 mm. long.

DIST.: N., S. Coastal to lower montane forest from near North Cape to 42º 30' in west of S.

FL. 8-1. Ft. 9-5.

Seedling and young plants us. have lvs serrate-dentate, 1-4 cm. long.

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