Syzygium 
7. Fruit bright pink with narrow triangular sepals 
Tf. Fruit red or white with a red blush ..........ccccseeseeseeeees 
KEY BASED ON FLOWER CHARACTERS 
1. | New growth 4-angled; flowers 5-merous.. 
1. New growth + terete; flowers 4-merous 
2. Buds >27 mm long; calyx lobes >6.5 mm long.......... 
MYRTACEAE ; 177 
S. fibrosum 
S. eucalyptoides 
S. angophoroides 
2 
S. suborbiculare 
2. Buds <20 mm long; calyx lobes <6.5 mm long or calyx Calyptrate ........sssseseseerereeres teens 3 
3. Petals or sepals calyptrate 
3 eae Petals:and | sepals:free tenses mente esters terete teen 
4. Stamens c. | mm long; leaves oblanceolate or elliptic, scarcely aromatic 
4, Stamens c. 4 mm long; leaves elliptic, aromatic ......... 
5. Stamens c. 15 mm long; sepals narrowly triangular 
5. | Stamens <15 mm long; sepals semi-circular ............... 
6. Buds >9 mm long; sepals >2 mm long ..........seeeeee 
6. Buds <9 mm long; sepals <2 mm long ......... eee 
7. Stamens 4-7 mm long; leaves 19-36 mm wide ........... 
7. Stamens 10-12 mm long; leaves 32-80 mm wide....... 
S. angophoroides (F.Muell.) B-Hyland 
Eugenia angophoroides F.Muell. 
Tree to 20 m; bark reddish and papery on mesic 
sites, usually grey, hard and fissured on drier and more 
exposed sites; current seasons branchlets strongly 
4-angled. Petioles 3-9 mm long, grooved above. Leaf 
blades elliptic, 60-120 mm long, 20-45 mm wide, 
lateral veins evident, + 30 pairs, intramarginal vein 
evident; midrib grooved above, raised below; base 
obtuse to cuneate; acuminate. Inflorescence in upper 
axils and terminating current seasons shoots; to 85 
mm long; bracts deciduous. Flowers 5-merous; buds 
+ sessile, articulate on short peduncles, obovoid, c. 
5.5 mm long. Hypanthium c. 3.5 mm long, 3 mm wide. 
Calyx lobes broadly triangular, c. 0.5 mm long, 
obtuse. Petals cream, orbicular, c. 2.5 mm long. 
Stamens c. 5 mm long. Fruit dark purple or white 
with purplish blush, + globular with persistent calyx 
lobes, c. 8 mm long. Flowering: July - Dec; fruiting: 
Nov - Feb. Fig. 55 
Endemic to northern Australia; from the 
Kimberley to Qld. In the DR recorded from Melville 
Is. to Litchfield NP area; in perennially wet 
rainforest. 
S. armstrongii (Benth.) B.Hyland 
Eugenia armstrongii Benth. 
Tree to 12 m, rarely to 25 m; bark pale grey, smooth. 
4 
5 
S. minutuliflorum 
S. nervosum 
S. fibrosum 
6 
S. eucalyptoides 
7 
S. armstrongii 
S. forte 
Petioles 5-10 mm long. Leaf blades slightly © 
discolorous, elliptic or narrowly elliptic, 75-135 mm 
long, 19-36 mm wide, base attenuate, apex acute 
to acuminate. /nflorescence many-flowered, terminal, 
to 120 mm long. Flowers 4-merous; pedicels 
c. 4 mm long; buds pyriform, 7-8 mm long. 
Hypanthium c. 3 mm long, 3 mm wide. Sepals 
broadly triangular, c. 1.5 mm long. Petals + 
orbicular, c. 4 mm long. Stamens 4-7 mm long. 
Fruit white, depressed globular, the surface rugose, 
to c. 15 mm long. Flowering: Sept - Nov; fruiting: 
Jan. Fig. 55 
Endemic to the Top End, from Darwin to western 
Arnhem Land. Common in the DR on stream 
margins. The fruit float and.are so dispersed by the 
stream during the Wet season. 
S. eucalyptoides (F.Muell.) B.Hyland 
Eugenia eucalyptoides F.Muell. 
Tree or multi-stemmed shrub; bark smooth, 
pale grey. Petioles 5-12 mm long. Leaf blades + 
glaucous, orbicular, elliptic, lanceolate or obovate, 
40-185 mm long, 8-95(165) mm wide. Inflorescence 
terminal, cymose. Flowers 4-merous, pedicellate, 
buds campanulate, 9-13 mm long. Sepals semi- 
circular. Petals orbicular, clawed, to 13 mm long. 
Stamens to 12 mm long. Fruit white to red, globular 
with persistent calyx, to 30 mm long. 
