Myrsine australis(A.Rich.) Allan

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WFO wfo-0001085286 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Myrsine australis, photographed by John Barkla
fig. a John Barkla, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-14 / obs. 197423508
Myrsine australis, photographed by John Barkla
fig. b John Barkla, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202109930
Myrsine australis, photographed by Jaco Grundling
fig. c Jaco Grundling, CC0 1.0 / obs. 193532604
Myrsine australis, photographed by Kelvin Perrie
fig. d Kelvin Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191992254
Myrsine australis, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. e Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195611469
Myrsine australis, photographed by Tony Wills
fig. f Tony Wills, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 193548269
Myrsine australis, photographed by Claas Damken
fig. g Claas Damken, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 192080626
Myrsine australis, photographed by John Barkla
fig. h John Barkla, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192714805

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 69 observations

Peak flowering in Feb, from 69 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Merista laevigata Banks & Sol. ex A.Cunn.
  • Myrsine richardiana Endl.
  • Myrsine undulata A.Cunn.
  • Myrsine urvillei A.DC.
  • Rapanea australis (A.Rich.) W.R.B.Oliv.
  • Rapanea urvillei (A.DC.) Mez
  • Suttonia australis A.Rich.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.