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Eugenia mooniana (Eugenia mooniana)

Description

Eugenia mooniana, is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae family which is native to Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka. It is a 8m 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. Flowers are white colored. Fruit is a globose, glabrous, single-seeded berry. Flowering starts from October and ends in December. The plant is known as pinibaru by Sinhalese people in Sri Lanka.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum:

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Myrtales

            • Family: Myrtaceae

              • Genus: Eugenia