Myrsine seguinii

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Myrsine seguinii, photographed by 葉子 — fig. b 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 111337260

Myrsine seguinii, photographed by Jacy Chen — fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110683083

Myrsine seguinii, photographed by Aaron Liston — fig. e Aaron Liston, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 9699562

Myrsine seguinii, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi) — fig. f 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63014219

Myrsine seguinii, photographed by lansan — fig. h lansan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 51033417

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Native distribution of Myrsine seguinii, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
China South-Central	CHC	ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast	CHS
Hainan	CHH
Japan	JAP
Nansei-shoto	NNS
Taiwan	TAI
Tibet	CHT
Cambodia	CBD	ASIA-TROPICAL
Laos	LAO
Myanmar	MYA
Thailand	THA
Vietnam	VIE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 869 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	6.5 °C	11.6 °C	14.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	26.3 °C	28.5 °C	30.3 °C
Annual rainfall	2,184 mm	3,781 mm	4,577 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	109 mm	676 mm	860 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 869 research-grade observations of Myrsine seguinii that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 13 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.

Athruphyllum neriifolium (Mez) H.Hara
Athruphyllum seguinii (H.Lév.) Nakai
Athruphyllum taiwanianum Nakai ex Honda
Athruphyllum taiwanianum Nakai
Athruphyllum yunnanense (Mez) Nakai
Athruphyllum yunnanensis (Mez) Nakai
Myrsine neriifolia Siebold & Zucc.
Rapanea capitellata var. macrocarpa Pit.
Rapanea neriifolia Mez
Rapanea neriifolia var. macrocarpa (Pit.) C.M.Hu
Rapanea neriifolia var. yunnanensis (Mez) E.Walker
Rapanea walkeriana Hand.-Mazz.
Rapanea yunnanensis Mez

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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