Eugenia grandis

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Interesting Facts

Description

Family Myrtaceae

Trees or shrubs , evergreen , usually with essential oils-containing cavities in foliage , branchlets , and flowers. Stipules absent or small and caducous . Leaves opposite, occasionally alternate, occasionally ternate or pseudo-whorled; leaf blade with secondary veins pinnate or basal, often with intramarginal veins near margin , margin usually entire. Inflorescences axillary or terminal , cymose but variously arranged, 1- to many-flowered. Flowers bisexual , sometimes polygamous, actinomorphic . Hypanthium usually adnate to ovary and prolonged above it. Calyx lobes (3 or) 4 or 5 or more, distinct or connate into a calyptra. Petals 4 or 5, sometimes absent, distinct or connate into a calyptra, sometimes coherent and pseudocalyptrate. Stamens usually numerous , in 1 to several whorls; filaments distinct or connate into 5 bundles opposite petals; anthers 2-celled, dorsifixed or basifixed , dehiscing longitudinally or rarely terminally; connectives usually terminating in 1 or more apical glands . Ovary inferior, semi-inferior, or very rarely superior, carpels 2 to more, locules 1 to many, pseudoseptum sometimes present, placentation usually axile but occasionally parietal ; ovules 1 to several per locule. Style single; stigma single. Fruit a capsule, berry, drupaceous berry, or drupe, 1- to many-seeded. Seeds without endosperm or endosperm sparse and thin; testa cartilaginous or thinly membranous, sometimes absent; embryo straight or curved .

About 130 genera and 4500-5000 species: Mediterranean region, sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, tropical and temperate Asia, Australia, Pacific islands, tropical and South America; 10 genera (five introduced ) and 121 species (50 endemic, 32 introduced treated here) in China.

Many Myrtaceae are cultivated garden ornamentals , street trees, or plantation trees. Some members of tribe Syzygieae are grown as fruit crops. In addition to the cultivated members of the family treated here, some others grown in China include Acca sellowiana (O. Berg ) Burrett (Feijoa sellowiana (O. Berg) O. Berg), Myrtus communis Linnaeus, and Syncarpia glomulifera (Smith) Niedenzu.[1]

Genus Eugenia

Trees or shrubs . Leaves opposite, petiolate ; leaf blade pinnately veined. Inflorescences axillary or often lateral below leaves. Flowers bisexual , solitary or clustered. Hypanthium short. Calyx lobes 4. Petals 4. Stamens numerous ; anthers parallel, longitudinally dehiscent . Ovary 2- or 3-loculed; ovules many per locule, amphitropous . Fruit a berry, with persistent sepals at apex. Seed usually 1, embryo straight, with 2 fully or partly fused massive cotyledons.

About 1000 species: mostly in tropical America but also in Africa, S and SE Asia, Australia, Madagascar, Mascarenes, New Caledonia, and the Pacific islands; one species commonly cultivated in S China.[2]

Taxonomy

Notes

Place of publication : Ill. 2:17. 1850

Similar Species

Members of the genus Eugenia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 68 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

E. aggregata (Cere Jodo Rio Grande) · E. apiculata (Short-Leaf Eugenia) · E. axillaris (White Stopper) · E. bellonis (Puerto Rico Stopper) · E. biflora (Blackrodwood) · E. boqueronensis (Sierra De Cayey Stopper) · E. borinquensis (Guayabota De Sierra) · E. brasiliensis (Brazilian Cherries) · E. braziliensis (Grumichama) · E. cacuminis (Cerro La Torrecilla Stopper) · E. carolinensis (Eugenia) · E. confusa (Red Berry Stopper) · E. cordata (Lathberry) · E. cordata var. sintenisii (Lathberry) · E. corozalensis (Sperry Guava) · E. cumini (Kavika Ni India) · E. deflexa (Cieneguillo) · E. dombeyi (Grumix-Aneira of Brazil) · E. domingensis (Serrette Guave) · E. earhartii (Earhart's Stopper) · E. eggersii (Guasabara) · E. eucalyptoides (Eucalypt Eugenia) · E. foetida (Boxleaf Stopper) · E. fragrans (Twinberry Stopper) · E. glabrata (Smooth Rodwood) · E. haematocarpa (Luquillo Mountain Stopper) · E. hastilis (Bois De Clous) · E. involucrata (Cherry of the Rio Grande) · E. jambos (Kavika Ni Vavalangi) · E. jutiapensis (Icaco Silvestre) · E. klotzschiana (Peradocampo) · E. koolauensis (Koolau Eugenia) · E. koolauensis var. glabra (Nioi) · E. laevis (Bayamon Stopper) · E. ligustrina (Privet Stopper) · E. ligustrina var. hebecarpa (Privet Stopper) · E. luschnathiana (Pitomba) · E. malaccensis (Malay-Apple) · E. monticola (Birdcherry) · E. myrtifolia 'Globulus' (Dwarf Brush Cherry) · E. myrtifolia 'Monterey Bay' (Brush Cherry) · E. myrtifolia 'Nanum' (Teenie Genie ® Miniature Brush Cherry) · E. myrtifolia 'Variegata' (Lemon Swirl® Australian Brush Cherry) · E. nitida (Eugenia) · E. oleaeoides (Black Lantern Fish) · E. pachychlamys (Guayabillo) · E. padronii (Padron's Stopper) · E. patrisii (Turtle Berry) · E. procera (Rockmyrtle) · E. pseudopsidium (Christmas Cherry) · E. reinwardtiana (Mountain Stopper) · E. rhombea (Red Stopper) · E. samarangense (Eugenia) · E. samoense (Eugenia) · E. serrasuela (Serrasuela) · E. sessiliflora (Sessileleaf Stopper) · E. sintenisii (Lathberry) · E. stahlii (Stahl's Stopper) · E. stelechanthoides (Eugenia) · E. stewardsonii (Stewardson's Stopper) · E. stipitata (Araca-Boi) · E. supraaxillaris (Redrodwood Eugenia) · E. umbellulifera (Ciruelas) · E. underwoodii (Underwood's Stopper) · E. uniflora (Brazilian Cherry) · E. uvalha (Uvalha) · E. woodburyana (Woodbury's Stopper) · E. xerophytica (Aridland Stopper)

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Further Reading

• A bibliographic enumeration of Bornean plants, by E. D. Merrill. Singapore, Printed by Fraser & Neave, ltd., 1921 url p. 428, p. 428.
• A hand-book to the flora of Ceylon: containing descriptions of all the species of flowering plants indigenous to the island, and notes on their history, distribution, and uses: with an atlas of plates illustrating some of the more inte by Henry Trimen. London: Dulau, 1893-1931. url p. 114.
• A manual of Indian timbers: an account of the structure, growth, distribution, and qualities of Indian woods. CalcuttaOffice of the Superintendent of Govt. Printing1881 url p. 191, p. 193.
• A systematic catalogue of the flowering plants and ferns indigenous to or growing wild in Ceylon. Colombo: G. J. A. Skeen, 1885. url .
• An annotated catalogue of types of the University of Illinois mycological collections (ILL) / Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1997. url p. 228.
• An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants, Manila, Bureau of Printing, 1922-26. url p. 181.
• Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya. Colombo: Skien; 1901-1924. url p. 274.
• Botanical publications of E.D. Merrill. [New York, etc., 1899- url p. 428.
• Bulletin of miscellaneous information /Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1911 London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1900-1941. url p. 278.
• Burma, its people and productions; or, Notes on the fauna, flora, and minerals of Tenasserim, Pegu, and Burma. Hertford: S. Austin, 1882-1883. url p. 717.
• Coastal Sensitivity Overview of the Strait of Malacca. Compiled for International Maritime Organisation (IMO) IMO url .
• Flora of Koh Chang: contributions to the knowledge of the vegetation in the Gulf of Siam / Copenhagen: B. Luno, 1900-1916. url .
• Forest culture and eucalyptus trees, San FranciscoCubery1876 url p. 180.
• Great Basin naturalist memoirs. 1992 [Provo, Utah]Brigham Young University, 1976-1992. url p. 1206, p. 1209, p. 1280.
• Illustrations of Australian plants collected in 1770 during Captain Cook's voyage round the world in H.M.S. Endeavour /by the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, with determinations by James Britten. 2 1901 London, Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, sold by Longmans, 1900-05. url plate 121, p. 40.
• Indian forest insects of economic importance. Coleoptera. LondonEyre & Spottiswoode1914 url p. 100, p. 638.
• Indian trees: an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian empire / London: A. Constable, 1906. url p. 320.
• Natural science: a monthly review of scientific progress. London [etc.]: Macmillan and Company [etc.], [1892-1899] url p. 198.
• Observations of a naturalist in the Pacific between 1896 and 1899 / by H.B. Guppy. London: Macmillan and Co., 1903-1906. url p. 163, p. 613.
• Preliminary report on the forest and other vegetation of Pegu. CalcuttaC.B. Lewis, Baptist Mission Press1875 url p. lxii.
• Second systematic census of Australian plants, with chronologic, literary and geographic annotations; by Baron Ferdinand von Mueller. Pt. I. --Vasculares. Melbourne: Printed for the Victorian Government by McCarron. Bird & Co., 1889. url p. 101.
• The Garden: an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. London: [s.n., url p. 234.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url p. 532.
• The Victorian naturalist. [Melbourne]Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. url p. 10, p. 186.
• The botany of the Kimberleys, Northwest Australia. [Perth, W. Simpson, Govt. Printer]1918. url .
• The flora of British India /By J. D. Hooker assisted by various botanists. Published under the authority of the secretary of state for India in council. 2 1879 London: L. Reeve, 1875-97. url p. 476, p. 476, p. 490, p. 490.
• The flora of British India. London, L. Reeve & Co., 1875-97. url , .
• The flora of Singapore. Singapore, 1900 url p. 81.
• The flora of the Malay Peninsula. By Henry N. Ridley, with illus. by J. Hutchinson. London, L. Reeve & co., ltd., 1922-25. url p. 719, p. 729.
• The gardens' bulletin, Straits Settlements. Singapore: Straits Times Press, 1913-1941. url p. 152, p. 154, p. 205, p. 238, p. 323, p. 349, p. 366, p. 408.
• The silviculture of Indian trees. Published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council. OxfordClarendon Press1921 url p. 549.
• The useful native plants of Australia, (including Tasmania) by J. H. Maiden. Sydney, Turner and Henderson, 1889. url p. 530.
• Transactions of the Scottish Arboricultural Society. Edinburgh: The Society, -1887. url p. 463.
• Chang Hung-ta & Miau Ru-hwai. 1984. Myrtaceae. In: Chen Chieh, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 53(1): 28-135.
• Chang Hung-ta & Miau Ru-hwai. 1984. Myrtaceae. In: Chen Chieh, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 53(1): 28-135.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 31, 2012.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2780706
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15642476
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:594571-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 16169
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1089734

Footnotes

1. Jie Chen & Lyn A. Craven "Myrtaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 321. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Jie Chen & Lyn A. Craven "Eugenia". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 321, 331. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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