Syzygium neoeugenioides

Trees 5 - 18 m, sometimes with dense branching and foliage. Bark somewhat rough or irregular (but not furrowed), sometimes flaking in chocolate brown patches. Branchlets sometimes quadrangular, emerging light yellowish-green. Petioles 1 - 2 mm (leaves sometimes appearing subsessile). Leaves sometimes emerging maroon but maturing to bright green. Leaf blades 3.7 - 5.5 × 1.5 - 3.0 cm, elliptic, bases rounded to slightly cordate, margins irregularly and (sometimes broadly) sinuous, apex rounded. Inflorescences terminal and often numerous, 4 - 7 × 2.5 - 4 cm, of many-flowered compound cymes. Hypanthium 1.8 - 2.5 mm, infundibuliform, yellowish-green and often pinkish beneath the calyptra, umbo prominent and narrow. Fruits 0.8 - 1.5 × 0.9 - 1.5 cm, globose, light green turning whitish at maturity. Notes. ‒ The leaves are thinly coriaceous and slightly discolorous. The secondary (and often tertiary) veins are faint but visible above and below and are more prominent in dried material. The secondaries arise c. 60 - 70 ° from the midvein. The stamens are light purple. The new name is needed because the epithet of the basionym is already occupied by Syzygium eugenioides (Merr. & L. M. Perry) Biffin & Craven (BIFFIN et al., 2005), a species from Fiji. The specimen chosen as the lectotype has abundant flowering material, is in excellent condition, and has “ type ” hand-written at a later time on one of the labels.