282; see text Myrsine is a genus of flowering plants in the family Primulaceae.

It contains over 280 species,[1] including several notable radiations, such as the matipo of New Zealand and the kōlea of Hawaiʻi (the New Zealand "black matipo", Pittosporum tenuifolium, is not related to Myrsine).

The leathery, evergreen leaves are simple and alternate, with smooth or toothed margins and without stipules.

The flowers and fruits often do not develop until after leaf fall and thus appear naked on the branches.

The Pacific basin and New World species formerly separated in the genera Rapanea and Suttonia (distinguished from the African and Southeast Asian Myrsine sensu stricto by having the style absent and staminal tube and filaments completely adnate to the corolla) are now generally included in Myrsine.