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|accepted_name=Myrsine
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 196. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 90. 1754 ,
}}
|common_names=Colicwood
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Myrsinaceae;Myrsine
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Myrsinaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Myrsine]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek name for a kind of myrtle
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 302, 303
|treatment_page=page 321
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, monoecious or dioecious [polygamous], not succulent, [densely pubescent] glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> persistent, alternate, monomorphic; petiole present; blade elliptic, oblong, obovate, or oblanceolate, base attenuate to rounded, margins entire, revolute, apex acute to rounded, often emarginate, surfaces glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> lateral (axillary) fascicles [umbels], sessile or subsessile, shorter than petiole; peduncle accrescent, forming short shoot; bracts persistent. <b>Pedicels</b> present [absent]. <b>Flowers</b> [bisexual] unisexual; sepals 4–6, green, calyx lobes triangular to ovate, ± equaling tube; petals [4–]5[–6], corolla green to white or pink, cupuliform to campanulate, lobes longer than tube, apex acute; stamens 4–6; filaments distinct or connate basally (forming tube); staminodes present; stigmas conic, 3–5-lobed. <b>Fruits</b> drupaceous, green to black, globose [subglobose, ellipsoid, ovoid, obovoid, or subovoid]; exocarp somewhat fleshy; endocarp crusty or leathery. <b>Seeds</b> 1, white to black, globose or depressed, usually covered with membranous remnants of placenta.</span><!--

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|distribution=Fla.;pantropical.
|discussion=<p>Rapanea Aublet</p><!--
--><p>Species ca. 300 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>J. J. Pipoly (1991, 1992, 1992b, 1996, 2007) and J. M. Ricketson and Pipoly (1997, 1999) have discussed the circumscription of <i>Myrsine</i> to include Rapanea, among others. Field work has shown that the dioecious plants often have bisexual flowers.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Myrsine
|author=John J. Pipoly III;Jon M. Ricketson
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Myrsinaceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Fla.;pantropical.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_642.xml
|genus=Myrsine
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