A monograph of the genus Myrceugenia (Myrtaceae) (L. R. Landrum 1981)
Myrceugenia rufa (Colla) Skottsberg ex Kausel: Shrub 1-2 m high; hairs reddish-brown to whitish, symmetrically dibrachiate, appressed; twigs densely pubescent when young, the hairs persisting until the first bark falls, the original bark splitting in a reticulate fashion, whitish-grey; the new inner bark at first reddish-brown, becoming whitish-grey; leaves densely pubescent beneath, puberulent above, sometimes glabrescent with age, broadly to narrowly elliptic, ovate or oblong, 0.5-1.8 cm long, 0.2-0.5 cm wide, 1.2-4.5 times as long as wide, the margin revolute; petiole densely pubescent, sometimes glabrescent with age, 1-2 mm long, not noticeably channeled; veins all indistinct above and below, or the midvein faintly visible; blades light bluish-green to yellowish-green, often lustrous above, reddish-brown to whitish yellow below, quite coriaceous; peduncles uniflorous, slightly flattened, about 0.5 mm wide, 1-4 mm long, densely pubescent, solitary or 2-3 in a row in the axils of leaves; bracteoles ovate to broadly oblong, 0.9-1.5 mm long, 0.7-1 mm wide, 1-2 times as long as wide, coriaceous, densely pubescent without, sparsely pubescent with¬in, clasping the hypanthium; calyx-lobes ovate to suborbicular, strongly concave, 1.3-2.6 mm long and wide, usually 0.8-1 times as long as wide, densely to sparse¬ly pubescent without, sparsely pubescent to glabrous within; hypanthium obconic, densely pubescent, ca. 2 mm long; disk 2-2.5 mm across, densely pubescent; style 5-6 mm long, sparsely pubescent; stamens 60-100, 3-6 mm long; anthers 0.4-0.6 mm long when dry; petals more or less orbicular, 2-3 mm in diam., very sparsely pubescent within and without; ovary 2-4-locular; ovules 5-13 per locule; fruit 4-8 mm in diam., purplish-black, pubescent; seeds unknown.
