Eugenia mooniana
| Eugenia mooniana | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Eugenia |
| Species: | E. mooniana
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| Binomial name | |
| Eugenia mooniana Wight
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Eugenia mooniana, is a species of plant in the family Myrtaceae which is native to Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka.
It is an 8m tall tree with terete branchlets. Leaves are simple, opposite; lamina elliptic to narrow elliptic; apex caudate-acuminate with blunt tip; base acute to rounded with entire margin.[2] Flowers are white colored. Fruit is a globose, glabrous, single-seeded berry.[3] Flowering starts from October and ends in December.[4] The plant is known as pinibaru by Sinhalese people in Sri Lanka.
References
- ^ "Eugenia mooniana". The Plant List (2015). Version 1.1. Retrieved 2015-07-16.
- ^ "Eugenia thwaitesii Duthie | Species | India Biodiversity Portal". Indiabiodiversity.org. Retrieved 2015-08-09.
- ^ "Eugenia thwaitesii - MYRTACEAE". Biotik.org. Retrieved 2015-08-09.
- ^ "Eugenia mooniana (MYRTACEAE)". Keralaplants.in. Retrieved 2015-08-09.
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