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Syzygium taiwanicum Chang & Miau

Description

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Trees, small. Branchlets grayish brown when dry, slender, 4-angled. Petiole 4-5 mm; leaf blade long elliptic, 5-7 × 2-3 cm, leathery, abaxially slightly yellowish brown when dry, adaxially grayish green and not glossy when dry, secondary veins ca. 1.5 mm apart, at an angle of ca. 70° from midvein, abaxially inconspicuous, and adaxially slightly impressed, intramarginal veins ca. 1 mm from margin, base broadly cuneate, apex slightly acute and with an obtuse cusp. Inflorescences axillary, cymes, flowers (1 or)2 or 3. Hypanthium clavate, ca. 2 cm. Calyx lobes semiorbicular. Fruit long clavoid. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. Nov-Dec.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of China Vol. 13: 335, 337, 340, 347 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Distribution

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Taiwan (Lan Yu, Pengjia Yu).
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of China Vol. 13: 335, 337, 340, 347 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of China @ eFloras.org
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Habitat

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● Broad-leaved evergreen forests; 100-400 m.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of China Vol. 13: 335, 337, 340, 347 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of China @ eFloras.org
editor
Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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eFloras.org
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Synonym

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Eugenia claviflora Roxburgh var. oblongifolia Hayata, Icon. Pl. Formosan. 3: 116. 1913; Syzygium claviflorum (Roxburgh) A. M. Cowan & Cowan var. oblongifolium (Hayata) Mori.
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cc-by-nc-sa-3.0
copyright
Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of China Vol. 13: 335, 337, 340, 347 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
source
Flora of China @ eFloras.org
editor
Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
project
eFloras.org
original
visit source
partner site
eFloras