Eugenia L.
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Family
Myrtaceae (Magnoliophyta)
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Scientific Name
Eugenia L.
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Description
Author: Maria Lúcia Kawasaki
Description: Inflorescences racemose in our flora, often appearing glomerate or fasciculate, the bracteoles persistent or deciduous; hypanthium not prolonged above ovary apex; calyx lobes 4, free, persistent; petals 4; ovary 2-locular, the ovules many per locule, the stigma punctiform. Fruits usually red to back, crowned by the calyx lobes. Seeds usually 1 or 2, the seed coat membranous to chartaceous; embryo eugenioid, the cotyledons fused.
Diversity and distribution: Ca. 500 species in the Neotropics.
Taxonomic notes: This description was prepared for the Plants and Lichens of Saba Project.
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Floras and Monographs
Eugenia: [Article] Maguire, Bassett. 1969. The botany of the Guayana Highland-part VIII. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 18: 1-290.
Eugenia: [Article] Maguire, Bassett. 1969. The botany of the Guayana Highland-part VIII. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 18: 1-290.
Eugenia: [Article] Maguire, Bassett. 1969. The botany of the Guayana Highland-part VIII. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 18: 1-290.
Eugenia: [Article] Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
Eugenia L.: [Article] Maguire, Bassett. 1969. The botany of the Guayana Highland-part VIII. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 18: 1-290.
Eugenia L.: [Book] Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Eugenia L.: [Article] Maguire, Bassett. 1969. The botany of the Guayana Highland-part VIII. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 18: 1-290.
