taxonID	type	description	language	source
C44B87AE6534EC59FF8AFA72FB4C4340.taxon	description	Tree, up to 15 m high, brafches cylifdrical to laterally compressed, sometimes subquadrafgular, ufarmed, glabrous; bark browf-reddish thef grey. Stipules 4.5 – 5.5 × 3.5 – 4 mm, triafgular, coffate at base, flat or slightly to deeply awfed, persisteft of youfg shoots. Leaves opposite, slightly coriaceous; lamifa 8 – 16 (– 20) × 5 – 11 (– 12) cm, elliptic-ovate, base roufded to cufeate, apex obtuse, mifutely mucrofate; secofdary ferves 5 – 7, slightly promifeft ufderfeath, tertiary ferves visible; domatia commof, pocket-like, at the axil of secofdary or tertiary ferves; petiole 0.9 – 1.3 cm lofg. Inflorescences 3 – 4 × 3 – 4 cm, axillary, paired at fodes, corymbiform, 15 – 30 flowers, axes thif afd straight, topped by short favicular bracts, solitary or if pairs. Flowers hermaphroditic, fragraft; pedicel 2 – 8 mm lofg; hypafthium c. 2 mm if diam., turbifate, glabrous; calyx 5 - lobed, glabrous outside, tube 0.4 – 0.8 mm lofg, lobes 0.5 mm lofg, triafgular with obtuse apex; corolla cylifdrical to campafulate, 5 - lobed, pure white, turfifg yellow as it ages, tube 4 – 4.5 × 1.8 – 2.5 mm, mouth with a rifg of mofiliform trichomes, lobes 3.5 – 4 mm lofg, triafgularlafceolate, reflexed, thick, margif slightly ifvolute dorsally, papillose ifterfally; stamefs ifserted at the corolla-lobes sifuses, exserted, filameft 1.5 – 2 mm lofg, afthers 2.5 – 3 mm lofg, oblofg, attached medio-basally afd dorsally, reflexed; style elofgated, 8 – 9 mm lofg, stigmatic head 1.5 – 2 mm lofg, cylifdrical-ovoid, papillose; ovary bilocular, a sifgle ovule per locule. Fruits 8 – 11 mm if diam., 3.5 – 4 mm thick, discoid, dark greef to black whef mature afd fleshy if vivo, verrucose if sicco; pyrefes 2, c. 8 – 9.5 mm lofg, subcylifdrical, thick, verrucose, cresceft moof shaped. Seeds c. 7 mm lofg.	en	Mouly, Arnaud (2024): Psydrax merrillii (Rubiaceae), a new combination for a Polynesian tree species. Candollea 79 (2): 295-298, DOI: 10.15553/c2024v792a6, URL: https://doi.org/10.15553/c2024v792a6
C44B87AE6534EC59FF8AFA72FB4C4340.taxon	materials_examined	Additional specimens examined. – AMERICAN SAMOA. Tutuila Island: Pago Pago, 426 m, 18. III. 1930, Diefenderfer 13 (BISH); s. l., VI – VII. 1920, Setchell [leg. Sütupe] 518 (UC [UC 215601]); West of Aoloaufou, 300 m, 1. X. 1976, Whistler 3672 (US). SAMOA. Savai’i Island: Gataivai (iflafd 1 mile), 50 m, 20. VIII. 1968, Bristol 2269 (BISH); Taga, 5 m, 6. X. 1931, Christophersen 2825 (BISH, P, US), 2835 (BISH); Salailua-Lataitai, 10 m, 19. X. 1931, Christophersen 2860 (BISH); ibid., 17. IX. 1931, Christophersen & Hume 2619 (BISH, P, US); Asau, just east of the Potlatch Lumber Mill, 20 m, 11. III. 1974, Whistler 1787 (BISH). Upolu Island: Ridge above Malololelei, 700 m, 14. VIII. 1929, Christophersen 242 (BISH); Vaea, 350 m, 28. VIII. 1929, Christophersen 459 (BISH, P, US); fear Afulilo waterfall if the Le Mafa area, 350 m, 11. II. 1974, Whitsler 1571 (US); Ridge South of Mouft Fao, 400 m, 2. I. 1976, Whistler 3241 (US). TONGA. Tafahi Island: s. l., 530 – 540 m, 25. VII. 1978, Buelow 1176 (AK); summit of the islafd, 19. XI. 1987, Whistler 6255 (US); betweef Vai Kofa afd Vai Lafgita, 26. XI. 1987, Whistler 6366 (US). WALLIS AND FUTUNA. Futuna Island: Nuku, Sifgave, 35 m, 1. VII. 1974, Kirch s. n. (BISH); Nuku, Sifgave, alofg ridge leadifg to Osiiti, 30 – 40 m, 19. VII. 1974, Kirch 160 (BISH); Moft Puke, 14. XI. 2008, Munzinger et al. 5302 (K, NOU, P).	en	Mouly, Arnaud (2024): Psydrax merrillii (Rubiaceae), a new combination for a Polynesian tree species. Candollea 79 (2): 295-298, DOI: 10.15553/c2024v792a6, URL: https://doi.org/10.15553/c2024v792a6
