Eugenia echinulata N. Snow

Shrubs or trees 1.5–4 m tall; dbh 4–5 cm; bark of main bole brown, somewhat cracking. Foliage and flowers glabrous except as noted. Branchlets terete to laterally compressed, drying light brown to gray, smooth, oil glands occasional but barely visible. Leaves slightly discolorous, more or less evenly distributed, margins coarsely sinuous, venation brochidodromous, surfaces matte. Axillary colleters absent. Petioles 4–6 mm long, slightly suclate, eglandular. Leaf blades (3.0–)3.8–6.5 × (1.0–)1.6–3.5 cm, narrowly elliptic or narrowly ovate to elliptic, base cuneate, apex acute to acuminate; adaxial midvein sulcate proximally but becoming flush distally, oil glands dense but faint, sometimes protruding slightly on dried material; abaxial surface midvein prominently raised, oil glands common to dense and of uniform size but faint, sometimes slightly protruding (dried material). Inflorescence ramiflorous or axillary. Flowers solitary or clustered into short brachyblasts; brachyblasts 2–5 mm long, densely short-bracteolate, sparsely covered with twisted, whitish-maroon trichomes. Pedicles 5–7.5 mm, glabrous. Flower material scant. Hypanthium ca. 3 mm, coarsely large-pustullate (warty), light green or yellowish-green in bud. Calyx lobes 4 (rose-colored in bud), 3–4 mm, elliptic to broadly ovate or rounded, glabrous, mostly persisting and crowning fruit. Petals not seen; said to be pink (Antilahimena 8858). Stamens not seen; anthers said to be yellow with white filaments (Ahtilahimena 8858). Style not seen. Berry 1.3–1.8 × 1.0–1.5 cm, globose to subglobose, coarsely rugose-warty when fresh but drying echinulate (with with short sharp points), densely glandular when younger, green when immature, drying nearly black. Seeds in mature fruit 1; ca. 10–11 mm, globular, outer seed coat elgandular.

Known from the eastern escarpment of Madagascar in the Toamasina Province around Analamazaotra and Ambatovy and in the highlands at Anjozorobe in Antananarivo Province (Fig. 7).

Eugenia echinulata adalah spesies tumbuhan yang tergolong ke dalam famili Myrtaceae. Spesies ini juga merupakan bagian dari ordo Myrtales. Spesies Eugenia echinulata sendiri merupakan bagian dari genus Eugenia. Nama ilmiah dari spesies ini pertama kali diterbitkan oleh N.Snow.