Compilation
Eugenia laurentii

Pyrophytic subshrub with caespitose shoots 7.5–50 cm tall (see note) from a horizontal rhizome, usually unbranched unless not burnt back, the stems ± densely short-pubescent. Leaves opposite, alternate, or in whorls of 3–4, ± shiny and darker above, narrowly elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate or linear, 4–11 cm long, 1.1–3.1 cm wide, obtuse at the apex, cuneate at the base. Flowers solitary in the axils or at base of plant sometimes in 2–9-flowered inflorescences, sweet-smelling; pedicels 0.6–2 cmlong, pubescent; bracteoles lanceolate to triangular-ovate, 1–2 mm long, persistent. Calyx-tube obconic, 1.5–2 mm long; lobes obovate, round or rounded triangular, 1.5–3 mm diameter, ciliate, glabrous or with few hairs on the faces. Petals white or yellow, oblate-obovate or ± round, 4–7 mm long, 3–5 mm wide, ciliate or not. Stamens ± 50; filaments 3–5 mm long; anthers 0.8–1.2 mm long in male flowers, shorter in female. Receptacle glabrous between the stamens. Style 5 mm long in female flowers with capitate stigma 1 mm long, lacking or much reduced in male flowers. Fruits bright red, purple or black, ellipsoid or subglobose, 0.8–1.5 cm long, edible; pedicels 6 mm long, puberulous. Fig. 14.