Systematic Classification:
Division : Angiospermeae
Class : Dicotyledonae
Order : Myrtales
Family : Myrtaceae
Genus : Syzygium
Species : Syzygium gardneri ThWCommon Name:
Karinyaral, Karinjaval, Kattunjaval, Karinjara
General Information:
Evergreen trees, to 30 m high, bark 8-10 mm thick, surface yellowish-white, granulated, peeling off in small flakes; outer part of the inner bark fibrous, pale pink; blaze brown; branches slender, terete. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate; petiole 10-15 mm long, slender, grooved above, glabrous, pellucid-dotted; lamina 5-10 x 2.5-5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, base acute, apex caudate-acuminate, margin entire, glabrous and glossy, membranous; lateral nerves many, slender, parallel, very close, prominent, looped near the margin forming distinct intramarginal nerve, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual, 4-5 mm across, white, in axillary and terminal trichotomous cymes, branches slender, divaricate nearly at right angles; pedicels 2-5 mm long; calyx tube 2 x 3 mm, turbinate, lobes 4, obtuse, obscure; no thick disc; petals calyptrate; stamens many, free, bent inwards at the middle when in bud; filaments 4 mm long; ovary inferior, 2-celled, ovules many; style 1; stigma simple. Fruit a berry 5-8 mm across, ovoid, rarely globose, purple.