Family: Myrtaceae

Description: 

Small trees, 8-12 m high; branchlets slender, terete at base, subround at apex. Leaves simple, opposite or subopposite, elliptic, cordate at base, acute or rounded at apex, margin entire. Inflorescence axillary or rarely a lax terminal, cymes. Flowers 1.5-1.8 cm across, creamy-white. Calyx-tube 4-5 mm long, cup shaped, creamy white at young stage, rose-red at maturity; lobes 5. Petals 5, obovate, acute-round at apex, gland-dotted, white. Stamens numerous; filaments white. Fruits broadly pyriform, crowned by the fleshy calyx with incurved lobes.