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Myrsine cubana

Guianese colicwood
Habit Shrubs or trees, to 15 m; branchlets glabrous.
Leaves

petiole 4–7 mm, glabrous;

blade 3.9–13.2 × 2.4–5.6 cm, surfaces punctate.
Inflorescences

staminate 5–9-flowered, pistillate 3–7-flowered;

peduncle 1.3–4.3 × 1.2–2.2 mm.
Pedicels

0.4–1.1 mm in staminate inflorescences, 1–1.4 mm in pistillate inflorescences, glabrous.
Staminate flowers

sepals 0.7–1 mm, margins entire, densely glandular-ciliate, apex acute, surface punctate, glabrous;

petals lanceolate, 2.3–2.5 mm, margins entire, densely glandular-granulose, apex acute, surface punctate, glabrous;

filaments rudimentary;

anthers attached at apex of corolla tube, oblong, apex obtuse, epunctate dorsally;

pistillode glabrous.
Pistillate flowers

similar to staminate except sepals 1–1.4 mm;

petals 2.5–2.7 mm;

staminodes 2.5–2.8 mm;

filaments rudimentary;

antherodes lanceolate, apex acuminate, apiculate;

pistil punctate, glabrous;

ovules 3–9.
Drupes

green to black, 3.5–4.5 mm diam., punctate.

Myrsine cubana
Phenology Flowering Oct–Apr; fruiting year-round.
Habitat Mangrove formations
Elevation 0-10 m (0-0 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
FL; Central America; West Indies (Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Cuba)
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Discussion

J. M. Ricketson and J. J. Pipoly (1997) discussed the correct application of the name Myrsine cubana. The widely used name M. floridana A. de Candolle is superfluous.

Myrsine cubana has sometimes been confused with M. guyanensis (Aublet) Kuntze, a South American species found in Brazil, the Guianas, and eastern Venezuela; see J. J. Pipoly (1992, 1992b) for the diagnostic features separating these taxa. In addition, M. cubana has a confused nomenclatural history; see J. M. Ricketson and Pipoly (1997) for a discussion.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 321.
Parent taxa Myrsinaceae > Myrsine
Synonyms Rapanea punctata
Name authority A. de Candolle: Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2, 16: 86. (1841)
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