Eugenia L.

• Authority

  Maguire, Bassett. 1969. The botany of the Guayana Highland-part VIII. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 18: 1-290.

• Family

  Myrtaceae

• Scientific Name

  Eugenia L.

• Description

  Genus Description - Known from a single specimen, in fruit. Superficially the plant suggests Eugenia punicifolia or a small-leaved, small-flowered specimen of E. pseudopsidium. The plant is glabrous except that the pedicels and the youngest branchlets are minutely hispidulous. The leaves are coriaceous with revolute margins, lustrous, elliptic, obtuse, 4-5.5 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, on petioles about 5 mm long, the midvein nearly flat above, often slightly channeled, the 3-6 pairs of fine inconspicuous lateral veins ascending, the foliar glands inconspicuous; the flowers are in small fascicles on pedicels 6-8 mm long, subtended by broad persistent bracteoles 1 mm long; the fruit turns red and finally dark purple; it is subglobose to oblate, 4-6 mm in diameter, tipped by the broad rounded thin green calyx-lobes 1.5 mm long and wide.

• Discussion

  Apparently this plant is not treated in the Flora of Suriname, and I suppose it represents an undescribed species, but I cannot be sure of this in the absence of flowering specimens with complete inflorescences

• Distribution

  Suriname South America|