CHR 515635 – Eugenia L.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 515635
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
25 September 1998
Database record updated:
06 October 2011
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Eugenia reinwardtiana
Determiner:
WR Sykes
Identification date:
1998-01-28 (Verbatim: 28 Jan 1998)
Preferred name:
Eugenia L.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Myrtales
Family:
Myrtaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Tongatapu, Houma area
Verbatim locality:
Tongatapu, Houma area
Verbatim collector:
WR Sykes 974/T
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
13 Nov 1997
Start date:
1997-11-13
Country:
Tonga
Habitat:
Lower coastal forest, inland margin.
Notes:
Shrubs 60-70 cm high, widespreading. Leaves rather thick, dark scarcely shining green above, pale green beneath, reddish brown when young, aromatic when bruised. Calyx becoming red inside after anthesis. Petals 8-9 mm long, elliptic-obovate, white, fugaceous. Filaments white, ageing pink. Rather uncommon.
Duplicates
BISH:
Direction:
Sent
Permissions
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