Eugenia foetida

Persoon

Syn. Pl. 2: 29. 1806.

Common names: Boxleaf or Spanish stopper
Synonyms: Eugenia myrtoides Poiret
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 10.
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Shrubs or trees, to 10 m, puberulent on young stems, leaves, and inflorescences, hairs pale, recurved and 0.2–0.4 mm, or erect and 0.1 mm. Twigs compressed; bark tan or gray. Leaves drying green, olive, or tan; petiole terete or channeled, 2–5 mm; blade elliptic or obovate, 2.5–8 × 0.8–3.5 cm, papery, base cuneate, decurrent along petiole, margins revolute, apex rounded or bluntly acute, occasionally ultimately retuse, surfaces with numerous, tiny glands, hairs scattered, erect or recurved, more dense along midvein and margins, or glabrate. Inflorescences (1 or )4–8-flowered, racemes, solitary or 2 or 3 superposed; axis 1–4 mm, puberulent, hairs straight and recurved; bud globose, 1 mm; bracteoles persistent, widely ovate, 0.5–0.7 × 0.7 mm, base distinct, margins scarious, apex acute, surfaces puberulent. Pedicels 1–3 mm. Flowers: hypanthium campanulate, 0.5–1 mm, pubescent; calyx lobes in about equal pairs, 0.5–1 × 0.5 –1 mm, margins ciliate, apex rounded, glabrous or with scattered hairs on outer surface; petals elliptic to widely ovate, 2–3.5 × 1.5–2.5 mm, margins ciliate, apex rounded; disc 1–1.5 mm diam.; stamens 25–30, 3–5 mm; style 4–6 mm. Berries black, globose, 4–6 mm diam.; calyx persistent, erect.


Phenology: Flowering and fruiting year-round.
Habitat: Coastal ham­mocks.
Elevation: 0–20 m.

Distribution

Fla., Mexico, West Indies, Central America (Belize, Guatemala).

Discussion

Eugenia foetida is known in the flora area from Brevard and Manatee counties southward.

Eugenia buxifolia (Swartz) Willdenow is an illeg­itimate later homonym of E. buxifolia Lamarck and a synonym of E. foetida.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
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Fred R. Barrie +
Persoon +
Boxleaf or Spanish stopper +
Fla. +, Mexico +, West Indies +, Central America (Belize +  and Guatemala). +
0–20 m. +
Coastal hammocks. +
Flowering and fruiting year-round. +
Eugenia myrtoides +
Eugenia foetida +
species +