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Syzygium maire (A.Cunn.) Sykes & Garn.-Jones, J. Arnold Arbor. 60: 400 (1979)
Syzygium maire (A.Cunn.) Sykes & Garn.-Jones

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Endemic
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New Zealand
Political Region

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(A.Cunn.) Sykes & Garn.-Jones
A.Cunn.
Sykes & Garn.-Jones
1979
400
ICN
species
Syzygium maire

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maire

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Glab. tree up to 10 m. or more tall; trunk up to 6 dm. diam.; young bark pale, branchlets 4-angled. Lvs on slender petioles 5-10 mm. long; lamina entire, (25)-40-50 × 10-15 mm., ± undulate or sinuate, about elliptic-oblong. Infl. of several- to many-fld corymbose cymes up to 8 cm. across. Fls ± 12 mm. diam.; receptacles broad-obconic, slightly exceeding berry. Sepals broad-oblong; petals white, soon falling; filaments c. 12-15 mm. long; ovary adnate to base of receptacle, 2-celled, ovules ∞. Berry ± 10-12 mm. diam., ± globose to ovoid, red; seed solitary, large, with hard testa.

Syzygium maire (A.Cunn.) Sykes & Garn.-Jones

2n = 22

Syzygium maire (A.Cunn.) Sykes & Garn.-Jones

Tree to c. 12 m high, sometimes with pneumatophores; bark smooth, whitish or grey. Branchlets spreading, 4-angled. Petioles 5-10 mm long, slender. Lamina (1.5)-2.5-6 × 1-2.5 cm, usually elliptic, sometimes broadly elliptic, sinuate or undulate, shining. Cymes usually of 5-30 fls, to c. 8 cm diam. Pseudopedicels slender. Hypanthium 2-3 mm long at anthesis, obconic; calyx lobes very short and broad, persistent on fr. Petals 2-3 mm diam., orbicular, white, forming calyptrum in bud, caducous. Stamens 5-12-(15) mm long, white. Style < longest stamens. Ovary adnate to base of hypanthium. Fr. 10-15 mm diam., subglobose, broad-ellipsoid or elliptic-ovoid, deep crimson, glossy. Seed 1, large.

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Eugenia maire A.Cunn.
Syzygium maire (A.Cunn.) Sykes & Garn.-Jones
Syzygium maire (A.Cunn.) Sykes & Garn.-Jones
Syzygium maire (A.Cunn.) Sykes & Garn.-Jones
Syzygium maire (A.Cunn.) Sykes & Garn.-Jones
Syzygium maire (A.Cunn.) Sykes & Garn.-Jones
Syzygium maire (A.Cunn.) Sykes & Garn.-Jones
Syzygium maire (A.Cunn.) Sykes & Garn.-Jones
Syzygium maire (A.Cunn.) Sykes & Garn.-Jones
Syzygium maire (A.Cunn.) Sykes & Garn.-Jones
Syzygium maire (A.Cunn.) Sykes & Garn.-Jones
Syzygium maire (A.Cunn.) Sykes & Garn.-Jones
Syzygium maire (A.Cunn.) Sykes & Garn.-Jones
Syzygium maire (A.Cunn.) Sykes & Garn.-Jones
Syzygium maire (A.Cunn.) Sykes & Garn.-Jones

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Syzygium maire (A.Cunn.) Sykes & Garn.-Jones
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Syzygium maire (A.Cunn.) Sykes & Garn.-Jones
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North Auckland
Syzygium maire (A.Cunn.) Sykes & Garn.-Jones
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Sounds-Nelson

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0cc8b6af-2764-4782-acb9-a63d34cd6501
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
11 October 2006
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