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Syzygium

Gaertn. (1788)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Myrtales Family: Myrtaceae Genus: Syzygium

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Trees or shrubs, usually glabrous or sometimes with multicellular hairs.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite or rarely whorled (3 per node). Surfaces glandular punctate; blades chartaceous to coriaceous. Margins entire. Pinnately veined, usually with a submarginal vein. Petiolate. Stipules vestigial or absent.

Flowers: Flowers (1–3)numerous in terminal, axillary, or cauliflorous, usually paniculate, umbellate, or racemose, rarely cymose inflorescences, bracts and bracteoles caducous. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Calyx of (3)4–5(6) sepals; sepals distinct, borne on the hypanthium rim. Corolla of (3)4–5(6), borne on the hypanthium rim, often obovate, usually glandular–dotted, distinct and spreading or coherent and forming a calyptra. Stamens numerous in 1 to several series, borne on inner surface or margin of hypanthium rim, usually strongly incurved in bud; filaments distinct or connate into bundles; anthers dithecal. Ovary inferior, 2(–4)-celled, placentation axile; ovules numerous, spreading from placenta.

Fruit: Berries subglobose; ellipsoid; pear–shaped; or subcylindrical; pericarp thick and fleshy; leathery; or brittle. Seeds 1(–6); seed coat loosely coherent to pericarp; cotyledon faces distinct; intercotyledonary inclusion absent.

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Uses and Culture

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Bibliography

Name Published In: Fruct. Sem. Pl. 1: 166 (1788)

Occurrences

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