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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
}}
|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-d0_s0" data-properties="tree pubescence;shrub pubescence"><b>Trees </b>or shrubs, mostly glabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="leaf arrangement"><b>Leaves </b>opposite;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="blade architecture">blade venation brochidodromous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="inflorescence architecture;inflorescence position;inflorescence position"><b>Inflorescences </b>(1 or) 2–100-flowered, terminal or axillary, dichasia, panicles, or racemes.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="flower architecture;flower architecture;flower architecture"><b>Flowers </b>[3 or] 4 (or 5) -merous, sessile or pedicellate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="bud shape;bud shape;bud shape;bud shape;bud shape">bud turbinate, clavate, or obovoid;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="hypanthium length;base shape">hypanthium forming a tube, prolonged well beyond summit of ovary, base often attenuate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="calyx lobe fusion;calyx lobe development;calyx lobe architecture;calyx lobe dehiscence;pair position relational;pair size;pair variability">calyx lobes usually distinct and well developed, in opposing subequal to equal pairs, rarely calyptrate and circumscissile at anthesis;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="petal coloration;petal fusion;petal fusion;petal architecture;petal life cycle">petals white, distinct or coherent and calyptrate and falling as a unit at anthesis;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="stamen atypical quantity;stamen quantity">stamens 50–300 [–500], borne in a ring surmounting hypanthium;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="ovary architecture or structure in adjective form">ovary 2 (–4) -locular;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="style duration;fruit development">style often persistent in developing fruit;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="ovule quantity">ovules 2–90.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="fruits berry coloration;fruits berry coloration;fruits berry coloration;fruits berry coloration;fruits berry coloration;fruits berry coloration;fruits berry coloration;fruits berry shape;fruits berry shape;fruits berry shape;fruits berry shape;fruits berry shape;fruits berry architecture"><b>Fruits </b>berries, red, purple, purple-black, yellow, or reddish, globose, ellipsoid, or subglobose, usually excavated apically;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="calyx lobe duration;calyx lobe duration">calyx lobes persistent or caducous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="seed quantity;seed shape;seed shape;seed shape"><b>Seeds </b>usually 1 [or 2, rarely 3–5], reniform to subglobose;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="seed-coat texture">seed-coat membranous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="embryo shape;embryo shape;embryo shape">embryo subglobose to reniform;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties="">cotyledons distinct, planoconvex, thick.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s19" data-properties="cotyledon fusion;cotyledon shape;cotyledon width;x chromosome quantity">x = 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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-->{{#Taxon:
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=
|source xml=
|genus=Syzygium
|base shape=attenuate
|blade architecture=brochidodromous
|bud shape=obovoid;clavate;obovoid;clavate;turbinate
|calyx lobe architecture=calyptrate
|calyx lobe dehiscence=circumscissile
|calyx lobe development=developed
|calyx lobe duration=caducous;persistent
|calyx lobe fusion=distinct
|cotyledon fusion=distinct
|cotyledon shape=planoconvex
|cotyledon width=thick
|embryo shape=subglobose;reniform
|flower architecture=pedicellate;sessile;4-merous
|fruit development=developing
|fruits berry architecture=excavated
|fruits berry coloration=reddish;yellow;reddish;yellow;purple-black;purple;red
|fruits berry shape=subglobose;ellipsoid;subglobose;ellipsoid;globose
|hypanthium length=prolonged
|inflorescence architecture=2-100-flowered
|inflorescence position=axillary;terminal
|leaf arrangement=opposite
|ovary architecture or structure in adjective form=2(-4)-locular
|ovule quantity=2;90
|pair position relational=opposing
|pair size=subequal
|pair variability=equal
|petal architecture=calyptrate
|petal coloration=white
|petal fusion=coherent;distinct
|petal life cycle=falling
|seed quantity=1
|seed shape=reniform;subglobose
|seed-coat texture=membranous
|shrub pubescence=glabrous
|stamen atypical quantity=300;500
|stamen quantity=50;300
|style duration=persistent
|tree pubescence=glabrous
|x chromosome quantity=11
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