Mt. Kahili Colicwood (Myrsine wawraea)
Description
Myrsine wawraea In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Kaua`i. Sprawling, few-branched shrubs or trees 1-2(-4) m tall, new growth reddish brown short-hirtellous, becoming glabrate; branches green or reddish brown to dark reddish brown. Leaves usually dark green, subverticillate (i.e., some internodes short, followed by 1 that is longer), those of young growth often more evenly spaced, subcoriaceous, oblanceolate to elliptic-obovate or occasionally elliptic, 7-18 cm long, (2.5-)3-6 cm wide, midrib usually dark reddish purple, lateral veins moderately conspicuous, submarginal vein present, both surfaces sparsely to moderately short-hirtellous (the hairs whitish in fresh material, becoming reddish brown in dry material), upper surface soon glabrate except for midrib, lower surface gradually becoming glabrate, midrib moderately to densely short-hirtellous, margins remotely denticulate and revolute, apex acute to obtuse, occasionally some of them rounded, tapering to the broadly cuneate or subtruncate base, petioles 3-12 mm long, - short-hirtellous. Flowers apparently unisexual (and the plants dioecious), 5-20 in bracteolate fascicles among and below the leaves, pedicels red, 7-10 mm long, moderately short-hirtellous; calyx red, the lobes ca. 1 mm long, short-hirtellous, margins conspicuously white ciliate; petals red, narrowly oblanceolate, 3-4.5 mm long, - short-hirtellous, margins conspicuously ciliate; anthers ca. 2.5 mm long, those of pistillate flowers slightly smaller and sterile, apex with a small tuft of hairs; stigma capitate-angled. Fruit Drupes dark bluish black, ca. 8 mm in diameter.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Ericales
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Family: Primulaceae
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Genus: Myrsine
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