Eugenia mooniana, is a species of plant in the family Myrtaceae which is native to Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka.

Eugenia mooniana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Myrtales
Family:	Myrtaceae
Genus:	Eugenia
Species:	E. mooniana
Binomial name
Eugenia mooniana Wight
Synonyms[1]
Eugenia concinna Thwaites [Illegitimate] Eugenia gracilis Bedd. Eugenia thwaitesii Duthie

It is an 8 m (26 ft) tall tree with terete branchlets. Leaves are simple, opposite; lamina elliptic to narrow elliptic; apex caudate-acuminate with blunt tip; base acute to rounded with entire margin.[2] Flowers are white colored. Fruit is a globose, glabrous, single-seeded berry.[3] Flowering starts from October and ends in December.[4] The plant is known as pinibaru by Sinhalese people in Sri Lanka.

References

• Notes on Eugenia gracilis, Eugenia mooniana and Eugenia phillyreoides (Myrtaceae)

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