Eugenia rhombea (O.Berg) Krug & Urb.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Myrtaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Eugenia rhombea (O.Berg) Krug & Urb.

  • Description

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    Species Description - A small tree, sometimes 8 m. high with a trunk up to 3 dm. in diameter, the twigs slender, the smooth bark gray, the foliage glabrous. Leaves ovate to elliptic or rhombic-ovate, rather thin, inconspicuously veined, 3-6 cm. long, bluntly acuminate or acute at the apex, obtuse or narrowed at the base, shortpetioled; flowers in sessile axillary umbel-like clusters, often appearing on twigs from which the leaves have fallen, the slender glabrous pedicels 8-15 mm. long; calyx-tube shorter than the 4 rounded lobes; petals ovate, about 5 mm. long, about twice as long as the calyx-lobes; fruit depressed-globose, orange, red or nearly black, 0.8-1.5 cm. in diameter.

  • Distribution

    Scrub-lands. Cave Cay, Long Island, Great Ragged Island, Acklin's, Inagua and Scrub-lands. Cave Cay, Long Island, Great Ragged Island, Acklin's, Inagua and the Anguilla Isles : Florida ; Cuba to Guadeloupe ; Jamaica. Red Stopper.

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