Myrsine affinis A. DC.

Shrubs or trees 0.8-6 m tall. Branchlets subterete, 4-5 mm in diam., smooth, reddish glandular puberulent, trichomes 2- or 3-fid, glabrescent, lenticellate. Leaves subsessile; petiole marginate, 2-3 mm; leaf blade linear or narrowly elliptic, 2-4(-5.8) cm × 7-11 mm, leathery, densely areolate and punctate abaxially, base acute and decurrent, margin entire, apex acute to a blunt tip; lateral veins numerous, raised on both surfaces, marginal vein evident. Infloresecences 1-3-flowered; bracts ovate, ciliate. Flowers yellow, 4-merous, ca. 1 mm. Calyx lobes spreading, nearly free, ovate, ca. 0.5 mm, flat, glabrous, sparsely punctate, margin entire, ciliate, apex acute. Petals united at base, elliptic, 0.8-1 mm, glabrous, sparsely punctate, margin densely glandular granulose, apex rounded. Anthers ovate, puberulent. Ovary glabrous. Stigma terete or sausage-shaped. Fruit dull purplish red to black, globose, ca. 5 mm in diam., densely punctate, glabrous. Fl. Feb-Jun, fr. Jan-Feb.

Hainan, Yunnan [Indonesia]

Dense evergreen broad-leaved forests, shrubby areas, limestone hillside; 1000-1300 m.

Rapanea affinis (A. de Candolle) Mez.

Myrsine affinis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Anh thảo. Loài này được A. DC. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1844.