Syzygium tephrodes (Hance) Merr. & L. M. Perry

Shrubs to trees, to 6 m tall. Branchlets grayish white when dry, narrowly winged at angle; old branches grayish brown, terete. Leaves subsessile; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate, 2-5(-11) × 1-1.5(-3) cm, leathery, abaxially slightly pale when dry, adaxially grayish green to grayish brown and not glossy when dry, secondary veins 12-16 on each side of midvein, ca. 1.5 mm apart, nearly same level as leaf surface, abaxially slightly visible, and adaxially conspicuous, intramarginal veins very near margin, base slightly cordate, margin glandular punctate, apex obtuse and with an acuminate to acute tip. Inflorescences terminal, paniculate cymes, 3-4 cm; peduncle grayish white, ridged. Flowers white, fragrant. Hypanthium grayish white, narrowly obconic, ca. 4 mm, longitudinally corrugate when dry. Calyx lobes 4, ovate-rounded, ca. 1 mm. Petals coherent, rounded, ca. 2 mm. Stamens 3-4 mm. Style 6-7 mm. Fruit grayish white, broadly ellipsoid, 3-4 mm, apical part narrow, apically with persistent calyx lobes. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Nov-Dec.

Hainan.

● Broad-leaved evergreen forests, valleys, slopes, stream margins; 300(-2000) m.

Eugenia tephrodes Hance, J. Bot. 23: 7. 1885.

Syzygium tephrodes là một loài thực vật có hoa trong Họ Đào kim nương. Loài này được (Hance) Merr. & L.M.Perry miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1938.

方枝蒲桃（学名：Syzygium tephrodes）为桃金娘科蒲桃属的植物，为中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的海南等地，常生于低海拔森林里。