Myrsine longifolia Nadeaud

Myrsine longifolia Nadeaud

Myrsine longifolia Nadeaud, Enum. Pl. Tahiti 61, 1873.

Rapanea longifolia (Nadeaud) Mez, Pflr. 9(236):373, 1902.

Described from and endemic to Tahiti.

Rapanea longifolia (Nadeaud) Mez

Myrsine longifolia Nadeaud, Enum. Pl. Tahiti 61. 1873; Journ. de Bot. 11:109. 1897; Journ. de Bot. 13:3. 1899.

Myrsine tahitensis var. longifolia Drake del Castillo, Ill. Fl. Ins. Pac. 7:227. 1892; Fl. Polyn. Franc. 118. 1892.

Rapanea longifolia (Nadeaud) Mez, in Das. Pflanz. 9:366. 1902.

DESCRIPTION (based on Grant 4266, the phrases in quotation marks from Nadeaud's and Mez's descriptions).—Unbranched “or few-branched” small tree or shrub, “2–8 m. high, 5–8 cm. in diamter,” with 1 terminal tuft of leaves “or several superimposed,” glabrous, “dioecious.” Wood finegrained, light brown, specific gravity 0.77. Twigs 1 cm in diameter. Leaves oblanceolate “lanceolate or elliptical,” 35–45 × 8–11 cm “25–50 × 7–12 cm.,” narrowed to a rounded base, acutish, pergameneous, prominently veined, minutely punctulate, subsessile on a 3 mm petiole, “petiole elongated.” Umbels borne below the leaves, “sometimes between the whorls, peduncles 2–5-branched, 1–5-flowered, pedicels 1 cm. long.” “Female flowers 3–4 mm. long, greenish-white; sepals very short; 4 rudimentary stamens; stigma large, elongated, 5-angled. Male flowers larger, white; stamens 4, short, with large anthers; ovary rudimentary.” Drupe globose, 13 mm in diameter “pyriform, 13 × 9 mm,” fleshy, “green when young,” red at maturity, very sparingly punctulate, “channelled when dry.” Pyrene 7–8 × 8 mm, 1–(“1–2”) seeded.

TYPE.—Collected by Nadeaud in 1859 in Tahiti.

RANGE.—Society Islands: Tahiti: Lépine in 1847 (P, fide Drake del Castillo); Ribourt 51 and 68 (or 66?), circa 1850 (P, fide Drake del Castillo); Nadeaud 401, Paea, Orofere Valley, foot of Mt. Mapuhi, alt. 1000 m, 10 May 1859, and Tearapau above Mamano, August 1896, fruit (G, fide Mez); Grant 4266, Papenoo, Mt. Orofena, alt. 710 m (2325 ft), in Cyathea forest, 23 September 1930, fruit, wood specimen (BISH).

Nadeaud cites two other localities, but we do not know whether specimens were preserved: Pare, Mt. Ereereaoe, alt. 1100 m, May 1896, fruit; Mahaena, Puaa, alt. 850 m, 14 February 1898, flower.

Myrsine longifolia is a species of plant in the family Primulaceae. It is endemic to the island of Tahiti in the Society Islands of French Polynesia.

Rapanea longifolia là một loài thực vật thuộc họ Myrsinaceae. Đây là loài đặc hữu của Polynésie thuộc Pháp.