Syzygium maraca
species of flowering plant
Syzygium maraca is a plant in the clove family Myrtaceae found only in the Wet Tropics bioregion of Queensland, Australia. It was first described in 2005 and has been given the conservation status of least concern. It has an affinity with Syzygium alliiligneum.
Description
Syzygium maraca is a small evergreen tree up to 24 m (79 ft) tall and 70 cm (28 in) trunk diameter, with flaking or peeling, brown or red-brown bark. The leaf-bearing twigs are about 2 mm (0.1 in) in diameter and may be rounded or slightly flattened. The leaves are simple (undivided) and arranged in opposite pairs on the twigs. The leaf blades are elliptic to obovate, measure up to 13 cm (5.1 in) long by 6 cm (2.4 in) wide, and are held on a petiole about 10 mm (0.4 in) long. They have between 8 and 16 straight and evenly spaced lateral veins on either side of the midrib, which diverge from the midrib at an angle between 50° and 70°. An intramarginal vein is present just inside the leaf margin.
The inflorescences are cymes produced either at the end of the twigs or in the outermost leaf axils, and they carry between one and four flowers.
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