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Eugenia

P.Micheli ex L. (1753)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Myrtales Family: Myrtaceae Genus: Eugenia

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Trees or shrubs.

Stems: Stems with at least some young parts pubescent with unicellular hairs.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Surfaces punctate. Margins entire. Pinnately veined, submarginal vein present. Petiolate. Stipules vestigial or absent.

Flowers: Flowers in racemose inflorescences but the axis greatly shortened and flowers appearing fasciculate, umbellate or glomerulate, or solitary, peduncles ± pubescent, bracts and bracteoles persistent until after anthesis. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. hypanthium globose to subglobose, abruptly contracted to the pedicel, not extended beyond apex of ovary or only slightly so; nectary disk relatively thin or broad and thick, cushion-like. Calyx of 4 sepals; sepals imbricate, distinct or coherent at base, usually persistent in fruit. Corolla of 4 petals, usually conspicuous. Stamens numerous, not or slightly incurved in bud. Ovary inferior, 2-celled; ovules (2–)several to numerous per cell; style short, usually less than twice as long as petals.

Fruit: Berries with relatively thin pericarp. Seeds 1–6; seed coat thin; membranous; smooth; loosely coherent to cotyledons; these usually completely connate to occasionally distinct.

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Historical Distribution

Images

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Uses and Culture

USES

  • For treatment of the illness pala, or veneral disease, ‘awa rootlets (Piper methysticum) and ripe niu (coconut, Cocos nucifera) are strained with ‘ahu‘awa (Cyperus javanicus) and the fine shavings of ‘iliahi (Santalum spp.), ‘ahakea (Bobea spp.), nīoi, and kauila woods (cf. Alphitonia ponderosa) are blended. The liquid is drunk twice a day, in the mornings and in the evenings (Chun 1994:103).

  • Nīoi wood used for kapa beaters (Krauss 1993:63).

CULTURE

  • He iki nīoi no Paka‘alana. A small nīoi of Paka'alana. A small but very powerful person. The nīoi, the ‘ohe, and the kauila were kinds of trees entered by the poison gods Kaneikaulana‘ula and Kahuilaokalani, and Kapo, a goddess, at Maunaloa Moloka‘i. The trees were later cut down and made into images.

Natural History

Island Status

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Sp. Pl.: 470 (1753)

Occurrences

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