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Syzygium hemisphericum (Wight) Alston
Synonym : Eugenia hemispherica Wight
Family : Myrtaceae
Local Names : Payanjaval, Tholnjaval, Venjara,
Venyara
Flowering
and fruiting period:
March – June
Distribution: South India and Sri
Lanka
Habitat: Evergreen and shola
forests
IUCN
status:
Data Deficient
Endemic: Yes
Uses: used in folk
medicine
Key
Characters:
Trees, to 27 m high, bark surface dark-brown,
smooth. Leaves simple, opposite, elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, margin entire.
Flowers bisexual, white or rose, densely packed. Calyx tube shortly and stoutly
obconic, lobes 4, obtuse; disc thick. Petals 4, free; stamens many, bent
inwards in middle regularly when in bud; filaments 15 mm long. Ovary inferior,
2-celled, ovules many; style slender; stigma slightly acute. Fruit a berry,
globose, purple, crowned by calyx lobes.
