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|accepted_name=Syzygium
|accepted_authority=P. Browne ex Gaertner
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fruct. Sem. Pl.
|place=1: 166, plate 33, fig. 1. 1788
|year=1788
|other_info_on_pub=name conserved
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Caryophyllus
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
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|name=Jambosa
|authority=Adanson
|rank=genus
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|hierarchy=Myrtaceae;Syzygium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Myrtaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Syzygium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek syzgios, joined, alluding to paired leaves and branches
|volume=Volume 10
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>or shrubs, mostly glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> opposite; blade venation brochidodromous. <b>Inflorescences</b> (1 or)2–100-flowered, terminal or axillary, dichasia, panicles, or racemes. <b>Flowers</b> [3 or]4(or 5)-merous, sessile or pedicellate; bud turbinate, clavate, or obovoid; hypanthium forming a tube, prolonged well beyond summit of ovary, base often attenuate; calyx lobes usually distinct and well developed, in opposing subequal to equal pairs, rarely calyptrate and circumscissile at anthesis; petals white, distinct or coherent and calyptrate and falling as a unit at anthesis; stamens 50–300[–500], borne in a ring surmounting hypanthium; ovary 2(–4)-locular; style often persistent in developing fruit; ovules 2–90. <b>Fruits</b> berries, red, purple, purple-black, yellow, or reddish, globose, ellipsoid, or subglobose, usually excavated apically; calyx lobes persistent or caducous. <b>Seeds</b> usually 1[or 2, rarely 3–5], reniform to subglobose; seed coat membranous; embryo subglobose to reniform; cotyledons distinct, plano-convex, thick. <b>x</b> = 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=s;se Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands (New Guinea);Australia.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 1000 (3 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Many species of Syzygium are widely cultivated throughout the tropics as fruit or ornamental trees or as hedges. They are not tolerant of cold. Two species are naturalized in southern Florida and another in southern California.</p>
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Inflorescences 15–100-flowered, panicles; floral buds 4–5 mm; calyx lobes 0.5 × 0.5 mm, caducous; petals coherent.
|[[Syzygium cumini|Syzygium cumini]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Inflorescences (1 or) 2–8-flowered, dichasia or racemes; floral buds 6–30 mm; calyx lobes 2–8 × 2–10 mm, persistent; petals distinct.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blades obovate or elliptic, 3–9 × 1.2–3.2 cm; petals 3–5 mm diam.; berries 1.4–2.3 cm; California.
|[[Syzygium australe|Syzygium australe]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blades narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, 12–24 × 3–5 cm; petals 10–15 mm diam.; berries 3–4 cm; Florida.
|[[Syzygium jambos|Syzygium jambos]]
|}
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name=Syzygium
|author=Fred R. Barrie;Leslie R. Landrum
|authority=P. Browne ex Gaertner
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=Caryophyllus;Jambosa
|basionyms=
|family=Myrtaceae
|distribution=s;se Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands (New Guinea);Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Fruct. Sem. Pl.
|publication year=1788
|special status=
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|genus=Syzygium
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