Eugenia essequiboensis Sandwith

• 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 essequiboensis Sandwith

• Description

  
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  Species Description - Leaves up to 6 cm long, 2.5 cm wide, apparently a little fleshy, smooth and glabrous above with impressed midvein, a little wrinkled beneath when dry, and persistently silky-hairy; veins almost invisible; convex glands inconspicuous on both surfaces; inflorescence and the ridged, narrowly pyramidal hypanthium densely reddish-pubescent; flowers mostly on new leafy branchlets; pedicels compressed, 3-5 mm long; buds 4-4.5 mm long; bracteoles linear-subulate, divaricate, 0.7-1.5 mm long, deciduous at flowering time; calyx-lobes 2-2.5 mm long, pubescent on the inner surface.

• Discussion

  Known from the original collection only. According to Sandwith it is a large tree, 30 m high and more than 40 cm in diam, growing in mixed forest. For additional descriptive details see Sandwith. At first this plant suggests some other smallflowered species with pedicellate, fasciculate flowers and soft reddish pubescence, e.g., the group of Eugenia chrysophyllum, but because of the narrow deciduous bracteoles it is not associated with them in the key.