Comprehensive Description
provided by Smithsonian Contributions to Botany
Myrsine rapensis (F. Brown) Fosberg & Sachet
Rapanea myricifolia f. rapensis F. Brown, Bishop Mus. Bull. 130:220, 1935.
This plant does not even resemble M. myricifolia A. Gray, but seems closest to the new species M. grantii Fosberg & Sachet of the Marquesas, from which it differs somewhat in leaf shape and in the more abundant finer black markings on the fruit surface. When its flowers are known it may prove too close to the latter species.
Described from and endemic to Rapa.
- bibliographic citation
- Fosberg, F. Raymond and Sachet, Marie-Hélène. 1975. "Polynesian Plant Studies 1-5." Smithsonian Contributions to Botany. 1-25. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.0081024X.21
