Myrsine juddii is a shrub that grows from 1 to 2 meters, with younger branches characterized by brown, short-hirtellous hairs. The leaves are simple and alternate, featuring narrowly oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate blades measuring 4 to 12 cm long and 1.5 to 3.2 cm wide. The apex of the leaves is rounded to obtuse, with a base that ranges from broadly cuneate to subcordate. The upper surfaces of the leaves are glabrous, while the lower surfaces are sparsely to moderately covered in whitish or brown short-hirtellous hairs towards the base and along the midrib. The leaves are dark green, becoming yellowish green in younger specimens, and are closely spaced and clustered toward the tips of the branches, with a coriaceous texture. The flowers appear in bracteolate fascicles 4 to 8 below the leaves on whitish short-hirtellous pedicels that become glabrate. The flowers are unisexual. The calyx is 4 to 6-lobed, with imbricate or valvate in bud, and the corolla consists of 4 to 6 lobes with yellowish-green petals. The anthers have a tuft of hairs at the apex, and the ovary is superior, 3 to 6-carpellate, leading to globose drupes (fruit) that are about 6 mm in diameter when immature. The seeds are 1 per fruit, small, dark-colored, subglobose, and excavated at the base. It is native to cloud-swept wet forests between 600-670 meters.
Bean-shaped (Reniform): Resembling the shape of a kidney or bean.
Square or Oblong: Angular shape with all sides more or less equal or longer than wide.
Triangular: Three-sided shape, broadest below the middle.
Elliptic: Rounded at both ends. shaped like an ellipse or oval.
Ovate or Obovate: egg-shaped, broader at one end.
Linear: Extremely long and narrow, with sides usually parallel.
Round: Appears circular, with length and width roughly the same.
Cardioid (Heart-Shaped): One edge has a prominent double curve into two lobes.
Cylindrical: A cylinder with parallel sides and a circular cross-section.
Discoid: Resembling a disc or plate with two relatively flat surfaces.
Fusiform: Spindle-shaped, tapering at both ends.
Globose: Spherical.
Lenticular: Resembling a lens with two convex surfaces.
Ovoid: Egg-shaped.
Plano-convex: Having a flat ventral (planar) surface and a curved dorsal (convex) surface.
Polygonal: Having more than three flat faces meeting at angles.
Sectoroid: Resembling a segment of an orange with two relatively flat faces and one curved face.
Subglobose/ellipsoid: Inflated shape but less than spherical.
Trigonous: Having three faces that meet at a distinct angle; triangular in cross-section.
Endangered species (E) are species that are so rare they’re in danger of becoming extinct.
Threatened species (T) are species that are likely to become endangered within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of their range.
Species of Concern (SOC) are species about which there are some concerns regarding status and threats, but insufficient information is available to list the species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
Plant Extinction Prevention (PEP) is a state status for rare plants that focuses its efforts on species that have fewer than 50 remaining wild individuals.
Orthodox seeds (desiccation-tolerant): can be dried to an internal seed moisture of less than 12% water and stored at freezing temperatures.
Intermediate seeds (temperature-sensitive) tend to age faster than orthodox seeds and may have only a 5-year lifespan when stored at -20°C. They are recommended for storage at 5°C.
Recalcitrant seeds (desiccation-sensitive): cannot be stored in a conventional freezer as they cannot survive after drying and/or freezing at -20°C. They are recommended for cryopreservation storage.