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Eugenia littorea

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Name

Identification
Eugenia littorea Engl. [family MYRTACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Eugenia coronata Schumach. & Thonn. [family MYRTACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Eugenia littorea
  • Eugenia coronata

Flora

Entry for Eugenia coronata & Thonn. [family MYRTACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 1, Part 1,
Names
Eugenia coronata & Thonn. [family MYRTACEAE], Beskr. Guin. Pl. 230 (1827); Aubrév. l.c. 85, 87, partly (Dalz. 8276).
Eugenia myrtoides G. Don [family MYRTACEAE], (1832)
Eugenia littorea Engl. & v. Brehm. [family MYRTACEAE], l.c. 335.
Information
A shrub or small tree, up to 20 ft. high,in savannah and fringing forest of the coastal plains; flowers white; fruits ovoid, about 1/2 in. long, green, turning black when ripe.
Habitat
in savannah and fringing forest of the coastal plains
Distribution
G. C. Axim. (Feb.) Irvine 2304! Cape Coast to Elmina (Mar.) Dalz. 8276! Accra (Aug.) Don! Dalz. 123! Achimota Irvine 1007! Prang (Jan.) Vigne 1555! Aframsu, Kwahu (Dec.) Chipp 593!Togo Lome (Apr.) Warnecke 119! 378! (See Appendix, p. 68.)

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