Eugenia roxburghii DC. Main specimen
Myrtaceae
{ Description | Flower }

Eugenia roxburghii has white flowers in axillary cymes. These cymes are 1 or 2-flowered. The flowers are pedicelled (pedicels about 5 mm long) with 2 persistent bracteoles (1 mm long) at the top of the pedicel. There are 2 villous bracts (2 mm long) at the inflorescence base.
The calyx is tubular and hairy. The tubular portion is globular, about 2 mm long and the lobes of the calyx are 4, oblong and obtuse, persistent and 3 to 4 mm long.
The corolla is composed of 4 white, glandular, ovate-orbicular and 6-7 mm long petals. The back is hairy and the margin ciliate. These petals are early deciduous.
The stamens are numerous, free, erect or incurved and attached to a circular disk at the bottom of the calyx lobes. The filaments are 5 mm long. The ovary is globose, 1-2 mm across, 2-celled with several ovules in each cell. The style is 6-7 mm long with a simple stigma.
The buds are globose, cream and light green coloured and about 5 mm across.

Eugenia roxburghii inflorescences with leaves
Eugenia roxburghii cymes
Eugenia roxburghii flowers
Eugenia roxburghii buds and open flower
Eugenia roxburghii flowering branchlets
Eugenia roxburghii solitary flower
Eugenia roxburghii flower
Eugenia roxburghii flower
Date of collection
2014-11-17
Collected by
N.L.I.B.
GPS coordinates
11.99475 N - 79.82362 E
Locality
Pitchandikulam Forest, Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India