Eugenia tenuipedunculata

Trees 5 to 20 m tall. Young leaves with dense, matted, brownish trichomes up to 1 mm long, on both sides, glabrescent, or whitish trichomes up to 0.2 mm long, appressed, dense on both sides, glabrescent. Leaves with petioles 5 – 13 × 0.5 – 1 mm; blades 4 – 15 × 1.2 – 5 cm, elliptic, narrow-obovate or less often narrow-oblong; base acute or cuneate; apex acuminate, 0.5 – 2 cm long, sometimes attenuate; midvein canaliculate adaxially; secondary veins 9 – 12 per side; marginal veins two, the innermost 2 – 5 mm from the margin, the outermost 0.5 – 1 mm from the margin. Inflorescence terminal or axillar, fasciculiform, rarely auxotelic and recovering vegetative growth; bracts 0.5 – 1.2 × 1 – 1.5 mm, wide-ovate; fasciculiform rachis 0.5 – 5 mm long, flattened, puberulent, or sometimes tomentose; 1 – 4 pairs of flowers, pedicels 5 – 30 × 0.7 – 1 mm, glabrous, sometimes puberulent, or tomentose; up to two rachises sharing an axil; bracteoles 0.5 – 4 × 0.5 – 1 mm, ovate or less often lanceolate, puberulent or pubescent, deciduous before or after anthesis. Flower buds 3 – 5 × 2.5 – 5 mm, obovate, calyx lobes partially fused but free at the tip leaving an aperture of 1 – 2 mm diameter, or rare calyx lobes apparently free but fused at the base to 1 – 2 mm, tearing regularly at anthesis in 4 lobes, two unequal pairs, the outermost 2 – 5 × 2 – 4 mm, wide-ovate, the innermost 2 – 5 × 2 – 2.5 mm, ovate or narrow-ovate, puberulent or tomentose outside the hypanthium,; petals 3 – 6 × 2.5 – 3 mm, obovate; stamens straight in the bud, filaments up to 6 mm long, anthers 0.5 – 0.7 mm long; staminal whorls flat, 3 mm diameter, squared, not tearing at anthesis; style 4 – 6 mm long; ovary 2 – locules, 8 – 13 ovules per locule. Fruits 10 – 15 × 10 – 20 mm, globose, purplish when ripe, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, crowned by remnants of the regular calyx lobes; seeds 1 – 2.