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Published In: De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum. . . . 1: 166–167, pl. 33, f. 1. 1788. (Fruct. Sem. Pl.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

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Contributor Text: ABDUL GHAFOOR
Contributor Institution: Don McNair Herbarium, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW-2308, Australia

E-mail:abdul.ghafour@newcastle.edu.au; artemisiella89@gmail.com

Synonym Text: Jambosa Comm. ex DC., Prodr. 3: 286. 1829; Cleistocalyx Blume, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavum 1: 84. 1849.
General/Distribution: A large genus consisting of c. 1200 species, distributed in tropical Africa, Asia, northern Australia, and Pacific Islands. Represented in Pakistan by 2 species.
Comment/Acknowledgements:

Syzygium is quite similar to Eugenia and all its species were previously referred to it. However, nowadays, Eugenia is thought to be restricted mainly to America and Syzygium to the old World. It differs from Eugenia in having cotyledons free (not coherent), the seed coat roughish, adhering loosely or closely to the pericarp and the inflorescence mostly paniculate-cymose.


 

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Evergreen, large shrubs or trees. Leaves petiolate, coriaceaous, opposite, with prominent intramarginal veins, glossy. Inflorescence a cyme, raceme or umbel, often panicled cymes terminal or if lateral then usually at leafless nodes on old wood. Flowers small or large, bracteolate. Sepals 4 – 5, united tube prolonged into a pseudopedicel at the base, limb truncate or with persistent or deciduous lobes. Petals as many as sepals, free or connate into a calyptra, usually conspicuous. Stamens born on margins of calyx tube. Ovary inferior, 2 – (-3)-locular, ovules numerous per locule. Fruit a 1-few-seeded berry.
 

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Leaves 4 – 5 times as long as broad. Flowers c. 6 cm across, with hypanthium more than 5 mm broad. Calyx limb   distinctly lobed. Staminal disc thickened.    Fruits broadly depressed-globose, (2.5-) 3 – 4 cm long, up to 5 cm in diameter.
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. S. jambos
Leaves 2.5 – 3 times as long as broad. Flowers 3-4 mm across, with hypanthium less than 5 mm broad. Calyx limb truncate or obscurely lobed. Staminal disc not thickened. Fruits oblong to oblong-ellipsoid, 1.2 – 2.0 cm long, 1 – 1.5 cm broad. Berries oblong to oblong ellipsoid 1.2 – 2.0 cm long.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. S. cumini
 

 
 
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