Biology:Eugenia mooniana

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Eugenia mooniana
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Eugenia
Species:
E. mooniana
Binomial name
Eugenia mooniana
Wight
Synonyms[1]
  • Eugenia concinna Thwaites [Illegitimate]
  • Eugenia gracilis Bedd.
  • Eugenia thwaitesii Duthie

Eugenia mooniana, is a species of plant in the family Myrtaceae which is native to Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka.

It is an 8 m (26 ft) tall tree with terete branchlets. Leaves are simple, opposite; lamina elliptic to narrow elliptic; apex caudate-acuminate with blunt tip; base acute to rounded with entire margin.[2] Flowers are white colored. Fruit is a globose, glabrous, single-seeded berry.[3] Flowering starts from October and ends in December.[4] The plant is known as pinibaru by Sinhalese people in Sri Lanka.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q15363064 entry