Eugenia malangensis Nied.

Species

Angiosperms > Myrtales > Myrtaceae > Eugenia

Characteristics

Pyrophytic subshrub with caespitose shoots 7.5–50 cm tall (see note) from a horizontal rhizome, usually unbranched unless not burnt back, the stems ± densely short-pubescent.. Leaves opposite, alternate, or in whorls of 3–4, ± shiny and darker above, narrowly elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate or linear, 4–11 cm long, 1.1–3.1 cm wide, obtuse at the apex, cuneate at the base.. Flowers solitary in the axils or at base of plant sometimes in 2–9-flowered inflorescences, sweet-smelling; pedicels 0.6–2 cmlong, pubescent; bracteoles lanceolate to triangular-ovate, 1–2 mm long, persistent.. Calyx-tube obconic, 1.5–2 mm long; lobes obovate, round or rounded triangular, 1.5–3 mm diameter, ciliate, glabrous or with few hairs on the faces.. Petals white or yellow, oblate-obovate or ± round, 4–7 mm long, 3–5 mm wide, ciliate or not.. Stamens ± 50; filaments 3–5 mm long; anthers 0.8–1.2 mm long in male flowers, shorter in female.. Receptacle glabrous between the stamens.. Style 5 mm long in female flowers with capitate stigma 1 mm long, lacking or much reduced in male flowers.. Fruits bright red, purple or black, ellipsoid or subglobose, 0.8–1.5 cm long, edible; pedicels 6 mm long, puberulous.. Fig. 14.
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An annual shrub. It has extensive rhizomes or underground stems. The above ground stems are 15-50 cm tall. The leaves are opposite or in 3 to 4's. The leaf blade is 11 cm long by 3 cm wide. The fruit are 1.5 cm long and wide. They are purple black.
Flowers usually solitary, in leaf-axils or, when borne near base of shoot, in the axils of bracts, rarely in very short, 2–9-flowered racemes; pedicels 0·6–2 cm. long; bracteoles 0·1–0·2 cm. long, deltate, persistent.
Extensively rhizomatous, geoxylic suffrutex; stems 15–50 cm. tall, caespitose, usually unbranched and burnt back to ground level each year, occasionally escaping fire and then sparsely branched.
Leaf-lamina 4 x 1·2–7 x 0–6 or 11 x 3 cm., broadest near the middle, narrowly elliptic or narrowly rhombic to linear, apex obtuse, base cuneate.
Sepals 4, 0·15 x 0·25–0·3 x 0–3 cm., debate or hemi-orbicular-deltate, ciliolate.
Style 0·5 cm. long; style-head 0·1 cm. in diameter, capitate.
Petals 4, 0·6–0·7 x 0·4 cm., Ungulate, ciliolate.
Fruit c. 1·5 x 1·5 cm., purple-black, subglobose.
Leaves opposite or in 3s or 4s, rarely alternate.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.15 - 0.5
Root system rhizome
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

In grassland with other suffrutices at the edge of seasonally waterlogged grassland (dambos) and in secondary grassland replacing woodland and forest at elevations from 1,000-2,150 metres.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows in seasonally waterlogged grasslands. It grows between 1,000-2,150 m altitude. It can grow in arid places.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses food
Edible fruits
Therapeutic use -
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Distribution

Eugenia malangensis world distribution map, present in Angola, Burundi, Kenya, Mozambique, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, United Republic of, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:595035-1
WFO ID wfo-0000958000
COL ID 3C5CJ
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Myrtopsis malangensis Myrtus angolensis Myrtus laurentii Myrtus poggei Myrtus marquesii Eugenia laurentii Eugenia malangensis Eugenia marquesii Eugenia stolzii Eugenia angolensis Eugenia poggei