Eugenia confusa DC.

  • Authority

    Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

  • Family

    Myrtaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Eugenia confusa DC.

  • Description

    Species Description - Small tree 2.5-8 m tall; bark light brown, smooth; twigs slightly flattened, glabrous, grayish to ash-colored. Leaf blades 3-8 X 1.5-4 cm, ovate, elliptic or elliptic-ovate, thick-coriaceous, glabrous, the upper surface glossy, with sunken midvein, oil glands numerous, the apex abruptly long-acuminate, the base obtuse to rounded, the margins strongly revolute; petioles 4-9 mm long, glabrous. Flowers white, 2-6, in axillary shortened racemes, the axis 1-5 mm long, glabrous; pedicels 10-17 mm long, glabrous; bracteoles oblong. Hypanthium nearly cone-shaped, 1-1.5 mm long, glabrous, gland-dotted, sepals ovate, glabrous, glanddotted, ca. 1.5 mm long; petals ovate, 3-3.5 mm long; disk 2-2.5 mm wide; stamens numerous, the filaments 3-5 mm long, glabrous. Berry globose, ca. 7 mm diam., turning from light green to yellowish orange.

  • Discussion

    Eugenia krugii Kiaersk., Bot. Tidsskr. 17: 259. 1890

  • Distribution

    A rather uncommon tree of moist or dry evergreen forests. Road to Bordeaux (A2098). Also in Florida, Greater Antilles, Bahamas, and Lesser Antilles.

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