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Myrsine fosbergii

Hosaka (1940)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Ericales Family: Primulaceae Genus: Myrsine

kōlea [kolea]

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Branched shrubs or small trees 2–4 m tall.

Stems: Branches dark reddish brown, glabrous.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades narrowly elliptic, 8–13(–14) cm long, 1–2(–3.3) cm wide. Apex long-acuminate and slightly hooked or falcate. Base attenuate, sessile. Surfaces glabrous, leaves dark green, dark purple at base, clustered near the tips of the branches. Margins entire and slightly revolute. Midrib prominent, lateral veins inconspicuous, submarginal vein present. Petioles absent. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers 4–8 in bracteolate fascicles arising on short woody knobs among the leaves, pedicels 5–8 mm long, sparsely puberulent or glabrous. Flowers bisexual (perfect) or possibly unisexual (and then plants dioecious). Calyx 4–5(6)-lobed, usually deeply so, the lobes imbricate or valvate in bud, punctate or with secretory lines, lobes 0.9–1.2 mm long, glabrous, margins ciliate. Corolla 4–5(6)-lobed, the lobes nearly distinct or connate up to ½ their length, imbricate in bud, oblanceolate, 2.8–3.5 mm long, margins ciliate. Anthers ca. 2 mm long, apex with a small tuft of hairs. Ovary superior, 3–5(6)-carpellate, 1-celled; ovules few in a single row, ovary reduced and sterile or absent in staminate flowers; style very short or absent, terminal; stigma capitate-angled.

Fruit: Drupes purplish black; globose; ca. 6–9 mm in diameter. Seeds 1 per fruit; small; dark colored; subglobose; excavated at base.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Ridges in cloud swept wet forest.

Elevation Range: 350-830 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic
O'ahu Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Occas. Pap. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Mus. 16: 46 (1940)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:940 (O); Lorence et al. 1995:41 (K)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details W/ Pittosporum, Antidesma, Psychotria, Gouldia, Ohia Preserved_Specimen Shrubs 5-7 ft ht, flowers. Perlman, S. 5274 Oahu BISH 1987-02-28
2 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On wooded slope Preserved_Specimen Rare, 8 ft. tree Hosaka, E.Y. 1903 Oahu BISH 1937-05-31
3 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen MacDaniels, L.H. 393 Oahu BISH 1927-01-27
4 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Kondo, Y. Oahu BISH 1953-02-07
5 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Oahu BISH 1919-12-01
6 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Neal, M.C. Oahu BISH 1938-07-03
7 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Along main stream on Steep band Aleurites overstory. Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. Kauai BISH 1989-06-13
8 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Steep, shady cliff out of the reach of goats. Preserved_Specimen Four meters tall w/a loosely branched 3 m. diameter crown, sterile. Hobdy, R.W. 2625 Kauai BISH 1986-09-06
9 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Kondo, Y. Oahu BISH 1953-02-07
10 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Kondo, Y. Oahu BISH 1953-02-07
11 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Bridwell, J.C. Oahu BISH 1919-02-01
12 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Kondo, Y. Oahu BISH 1953-02-07
13 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details 95% open shrubland/herbland with sparse tree cover of Metrosideros polymorpha w/ Dicranopteris linearis, Machaerina angustifolia, M. mariscoides, Sida fallax, Cibotum glaucum, Sadleria pallida, Kadua terminalis, K. fluviatilis, Psychotria mariniana, Antidesma platyphyllum var. Preserved_Specimen Shrub 1.75 m tall, moderately branched, leaves mostly dark green, in early fruit, single plant Wood, K.R. 18667 Kauai BISH 2021-04-05
14 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In Metrosideros-Dicranopteris lineararis lowland wet shrubland with Scaevola, Psychotria, Alyxia, Melicope, Broussaisia, Cibotium, Machaerina, Bidens, Freycinetia Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. 6199 Oahu BISH 1987-07-19
15 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On steep open Dicranopteris-covered slope, associated with Metrosideros, Clermontia, Pittosporum, Phyllostegia, Dubautia, Pelea. Preserved_Specimen Shrub 4 ft tall. Imada, C. 185 Oahu BISH 1986-01-27
16 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In Metrosideros-Dicranopteris linearis lowland wet forest with Antidesma, Clermontia, Cyrtandra, Zanthoxylum, Myrsine, Melicope, Pritchardia, Pyschotria, Tetraplasandra, Bobea Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. 5936 Oahu BISH 1987-06-07
17 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On windswept, among low bushy native vegetation. Preserved_Specimen Plants small bush, about 1 m (3.3 ft) high. Obata, J.K. 86115 Oahu BISH 1986-01-23
18 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Along Koolau crest on the leeward face; associated with Pelea, Psychotria, etc. Preserved_Specimen Obata, J.K. 85591 Oahu BISH 1985-07-29
19 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On wooded slope Preserved_Specimen Rare, 8 ft. tree Hosaka, E.Y. 1903 Oahu BISH 1937-05-31
20 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details With Pelea, Gouldia, etc. Preserved_Specimen Shrub 2 m ht. Nagata, K.M. 2606 Oahu BISH 1983-02-09
21 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Found with Metrosideros, Clermontia, Bidens, Rubus rosifolius, Melinis minutiflora, Vaccinium sp., Phyllostegia, Dicranopteris linearis, Pipturus sp., and Broussaisia Preserved_Specimen Higashino, P.K. 8015 Oahu BISH 1978-09-24
22 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Montane bogs dissected w/ riparian veg of Metrosideros-Cheirodendron forest. W/ mixed sedges and grasses including Rhynchospora chinensis, R. rugosa lavarum, Dichanthelium, Deschampsia, Machaerina, herbs of Plantago pachyphylla, Viola shrubs of Metrosideros, Dubau Preserved_Specimen Dubau tree, 2 m tall, stems dark brown, occasional. Wood, K.R. 12285 Kauai BISH 2007-03-06
23 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In Metrosideros- Dicranopteris lowland wet forest with Tetraplasandra, Scaevola, Cyrtandra, Melicope, Coprosma, Broussaisia, Antidesma, Wikstroemia, Ilex, Cheirodendron, Clidemia. Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. 6012 Oahu BISH 1987-06-26
24 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On windswept, among low bushy native vegetation. Preserved_Specimen Plants small bush, about 1 m (3.3 ft) high. Obata, J.K. 86115 Oahu BISH 1986-01-23
25 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros mixed forest, w/Xylosma, Pelea, Claoxylon, Planchonella. Preserved_Specimen Five m. tall. Lau, J. 3089 Kauai BISH 1987-07-03
26 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details W/ Pittosporum, Antidesma, Psychotria, Gouldia, Ohia Preserved_Specimen Shrubs 5-7 ft ht, flowers. Perlman, S. 5274 Oahu BISH 1987-02-28
27 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Webster, G.L. 1576 Oahu BISH 1948-04-25
28 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On wooded slope Preserved_Specimen Rare, 8 ft. tree Hosaka, E.Y. 1903 Oahu BISH 1937-05-31
29 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On wooded slope Preserved_Specimen Rare, 8 ft. tree Hosaka, E.Y. 1903 Oahu BISH 1937-05-31
30 Myrsine fosbergii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Two trees of 3 meters. New leaves pale, glossy green w/maroon base, midvein & petiole. Older leaves glossy green above, whitish-green below. Young stems maroon (elevation 518 m). Flynn, T.W. 3147 Kauai BISH 1988-09-21
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