Kingdom Plantae Family Myrtaceae Rank Species | Order Myrtales Genus Eugenia | |
Eugenia mooniana, is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae family which is native to Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka.
It is a 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. Flowers are white colored. Fruit is a globose, glabrous, single-seeded berry. Flowering starts from October and ends in December. The plant is known as pinibaru by Sinhalese people in Sri Lanka.
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