View source for Psidium ← Psidium You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Psidium |accepted_authority=Linnaeus |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Sp. Pl. |place=1: 470. 1753 |year=1753 }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Myrtaceae;Psidium |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Myrtaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Psidium]]</div></div> |etymology=Ancient Greek name psidion for Punica, alluding to supposed resemblance |volume=Volume 10 |mention_page= |treatment_page= }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, glabrous or pubescent, hairs simple. <b>Leaves</b> sometimes drought deciduous, opposite; blade venation usually brochidodromous. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1- or 3-flowered, axillary, solitary flowers or dichasia; bracteoles caducous. <b>Flowers</b> usually 5-merous, sessile or pedicellate; hypanthium obconic; calyx lobes distinct or connate beyond summit of ovary to form calyx tube, sometimes forming calyptra (in closed flower bud, calyptra completely closed or open only as a terminal pore, tearing regularly into 5 lobes or irregularly); petals whitish; stamens [100–]280–720; ovary [2- or]3–6-locular; placenta bilamelate, often protruding as a peltate structure; ovules 12–180 per locule, biseriate or multiseriate. <b>Fruits</b> berries, green, yellow, or red, pyriform, globose, or subglobose. <b>Seeds</b> few–100+; seed coat dull, bony, densely woody, ca. 9–30 cells thick at narrowest point, covered with thin layer of pulpy tissue when wet, or glaze or crusty tissue when dry; embryo curved; cotyledons usually reflexed, linear to elliptic, shorter than hypocotyl.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Florida;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America (except Chile). |introduced=true |discussion=<p>Species ca. 70 (2 in the flora).</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Leaf blades glabrous, obovate, oblanceolate, or elliptic, lateral veins 8–13 pairs (weak to obscure); floral buds each usually with a terminal pore, apex rounded. |[[Psidium cattleyanum|Psidium cattleyanum]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Leaf blades appressed-pubescent abaxially, elliptic, elliptic-oblanceolate, elliptic-obovate, lanceolate, or oblong, lateral veins 9–22 pairs (prominent); floral buds each without terminal pore, apex usually conic. |[[Psidium guajava|Psidium guajava]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Psidium |author=Leslie R. Landrum |authority=Linnaeus |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Myrtaceae |distribution=Florida;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America (except Chile). |introduced=true |reference=None |publication title=Sp. Pl. |publication year=1753 |special status= |source xml=https://xjsachs2@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/e39f0e846f172941159b2045254d62d10d9823f6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V10/V10_748.xml |genus=Psidium }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Myrtaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Myrtaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Psidium.