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Eugenia protracta

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Identification
Isotype of Eugenia protracta Steud. [family MYRTACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Rogers McVaugh,
Related name
  • Eugenia salzmannii
  • Myrciaria floribunda
  • Eugenia protenta
  • Eugenia protracta
  • Myrciaria protracta

Flora

Entry for MYRCIARIA floribunda (Willd.) O. Berg [family MYRTACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2001) Author: B Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
MYRCIARIA floribunda (Willd.) O. Berg [family MYRTACEAE]
Eugenia floribunda Willd. [family MYRTACEAE]
Eugenia protracta Steud. [family MYRTACEAE], )
Information
Evergreen shrub or small tree 3–4.5 m tall with reddish brown branchlets, puberulous when young; bark flaking. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, 2.5–8 cm long, 0.8–3 cm wide with slender attenuate apex with sharply acute tip; petiole 3 mm long. Flower clusters subsessile. Stamens ± 75. Fruit orange to dark red or blackish red, globose or ± oblate-spheroid, 0.8–1.6 cm diameter.
Notes
M. floribunda( Willd .) O. Berg the rumberry or guava berry has been grown for its edible fruits. Sobral in Napaea 9: 16 (1993) details the amazingly voluminous synonymy of this species and Morton, Fruits of warm climates: 388 (1987) describes it. Tanzania. Lushoto District: Amani, 12 July 1946, Greenway 7846 & Kiumba, 28 May 1946, Don Carlos in A.H. 9822 & Amani, Drackenberg Plantation, 12 July 1946, Greenway 7845 & Amani, Furuya 254. A native of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Porto Rico etc. it also occurs in S Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Salvador, the Guianas, E Brazil and N Colombia.

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