Vasilis Teodoridis:
Myrtaceae | Syzygium
1. Syzygium acuminatissimum (Blume) Candolle; Prodr. 3: 261. 1828.
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Myrtus acuminatissima Blume; Bijdr. 1088. 1826-1827; Acmena acuminatissima (Blume) Merrill & L. M. Perry; Eugenia acuminatissima (Blume) Kurz (1875); not Miquel (1846); E. cuspidato-ovata Hayata; E. subdecurrens (Miquel) Merrill & Chun; Jambosa acuminatissima (Blume) Hasskarl; Syzygium cuspidato-ovatum (Hayata) Mori; S. subdecurrens Miquel.
Trees; to 20 m tall. Branchlets terete or obtusely ridged. Petiole 5-8 mm; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate; 5-12 x 1-3.5 cm; leathery; adaxially dark with numerous oil glands; secondary veins numerous; ca. 3 mm apart; at an angle of 65°-70° from midvein; abaxially visible; and adaxially inconspicuous; intramarginal veins ca. 1.5 mm from margin; base broadly cuneate; apex caudate-acuminate and with a ca. 2 cm acumen. Inflorescences terminal; 3-flowered cymes arranged into panicles; 3-6 cm; peduncle ridged. Flower buds obovoid; 3-4 mm; basally cuneate; apically rounded. Hypanthium obconic; shortly stipitate. Calyx lobes inconspicuous; apical margins of hypanthium incurved. Petals white; distinct; ca. 1 mm. Stamens ca. 1 mm. Fruit blackish purple when ripe; globose; ca. 1.5 cm in diam.; 1-seeded. Embryo with intrusive branching tissue extending into and interlocking cotyledons. Fl. Jul-Oct.
Low to middle elevation forests. Guangdong; Guangxi; Hainan; Taiwan (Lan Yu) [India; Indonesia; Malaysia; Myanmar; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Thailand; Pacific islands].
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Myrtaceae | Syzygium
1. Syzygium acuminatissimum (Blume) Candolle; Prodr. 3: 261. 1828.
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Myrtus acuminatissima Blume; Bijdr. 1088. 1826-1827; Acmena acuminatissima (Blume) Merrill & L. M. Perry; Eugenia acuminatissima (Blume) Kurz (1875); not Miquel (1846); E. cuspidato-ovata Hayata; E. subdecurrens (Miquel) Merrill & Chun; Jambosa acuminatissima (Blume) Hasskarl; Syzygium cuspidato-ovatum (Hayata) Mori; S. subdecurrens Miquel.
Trees; to 20 m tall. Branchlets terete or obtusely ridged. Petiole 5-8 mm; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate; 5-12 x 1-3.5 cm; leathery; adaxially dark with numerous oil glands; secondary veins numerous; ca. 3 mm apart; at an angle of 65°-70° from midvein; abaxially visible; and adaxially inconspicuous; intramarginal veins ca. 1.5 mm from margin; base broadly cuneate; apex caudate-acuminate and with a ca. 2 cm acumen. Inflorescences terminal; 3-flowered cymes arranged into panicles; 3-6 cm; peduncle ridged. Flower buds obovoid; 3-4 mm; basally cuneate; apically rounded. Hypanthium obconic; shortly stipitate. Calyx lobes inconspicuous; apical margins of hypanthium incurved. Petals white; distinct; ca. 1 mm. Stamens ca. 1 mm. Fruit blackish purple when ripe; globose; ca. 1.5 cm in diam.; 1-seeded. Embryo with intrusive branching tissue extending into and interlocking cotyledons. Fl. Jul-Oct.
Low to middle elevation forests. Guangdong; Guangxi; Hainan; Taiwan (Lan Yu) [India; Indonesia; Malaysia; Myanmar; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Thailand; Pacific islands].