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Myrsinaceae Myrsine trinitatis A. DC.

Myrsinaceae Myrsine trinitatis
| | © W.D. Hawthorne

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Species information

Description
Treelet to 7m; Infls amongst or below the leaves. Young twigs without hairs; leaves with minute dots and dashes. Young shoots hairless. infls 1-5 flowered; fts 5mm black.

Specimen information

Collection Date
17/11/1999

Collector
W.D. Hawthorne, C. Hughes & A Clarke

Specimen Number
62

Location
Along the lake road c.500m from the visitor centre.

Notes
Tree to 10 m . Slash very fibrous +/- spongy, deep red, breaking off into chunks. Twigs with numerous short knobbs, c.7-10mm. Leaves with translucent dots around the margin and dashes towards the centre, latter visible without handlens, venation obscure. Berries turning black, with c. 5 calyx lobes. (RHS colour code: Leaf upper =, below=146B)

Coordinates
Latitude: 12.050000 N   Longitude: 61.420000 W   Altitude: 600