Myrsine L. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science

Native to:

Afghanistan, Andaman Is., Angola, Antipodean Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Assam, Azores, Bahamas, Belize, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Central American Pacific Is., Chatham Is., China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Florida, Free State, French Guiana, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, Kermadec Is., KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maluku, Marquesas, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Norfolk Is., Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn Is., Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rwanda, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Society Is., Solomon Is., Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Turks-Caicos Is., Uganda, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Victoria, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., West Himalaya, Western Australia, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Extinct in:

Socotra

Introduced into:

Great Britain

Heterotypic Synonyms

• Anamtia Koidz. in Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 37: 39 (1923)
• Athruphyllum Lour. in Fl. Cochinch.: 120 (1790)
• Caballeria Ruiz & Pav. in Fl. Peruv. Prodr.: 141 (1794)
• Duhamelia Dombey ex Lam. in Encycl. 1: 245 (1783)
• Fialaris Raf. in Sylva Tellur.: 166 (1838)
• Heurlinia Raf. in Sylva Tellur.: 166 (1838)
• Manglilla Juss. in Gen. Pl.: 151 (1789)
• Merista Banks & Sol. ex A.Cunn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. 2: 47 (1839)
• Pilogyne Gagnep. in Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., sér. 2, 20: 291 (1948), nom. illeg.
• Plotia Adans. in Fam. Pl. 2: 226 (1763)
• Rapanea Aubl. in Hist. Pl. Guiane: 121 (1775)
• Scleroxylum Willd. in Mag. Neuesten Entdeck. Gesammten Naturk. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 3: 57 (1809)
• Suttonia A.Rich. in J.S.C.Dumont d'Urville, Voy. Astrolabe 1: 349 (1832)
• Hunsteinia Lauterb. in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 55: 265 (1918)

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.

Flora Zambesiaca

• Sp. Pl. 1: 196 (1753).

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 90 (1754)
• Mez in E.P. IV.236: 338 (1902)
• Sp. Pl.: 196 (1753)

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

View this genus in the Tree of Life Explorer

• • Flora Zambesiaca
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• • Flora of Tropical East Africa
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• • Flora of the Cayman Islands
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• • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
• • The Malesian Key Group (2010) Interactive Key to Seed Plants of Malesia and Indo-China (Version 2.0, 28 Jul 2010) The Nationaal Herbarium Nederland Leiden and The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
• • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
  • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
• • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
  • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
• • Milliken, W., Klitgard, B. and Baracat, A. (2009 onwards), Neotropikey - Interactive key and information resources for flowering plants of the Neotropics.
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• • Trees of New Guinea
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