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Eugenia macnabiana

(Eugenia macnabiana)

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Description

Eugenia macnabiana is a myrtle tree species first described by Carl Karl Wilhelm Leopold Krug and Ignatz Urban , and became known as Ignatz Urban. Eugenia macnabiana is part of the genus Eugenia and the family myrtle plants . Eugenia is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. It has a worldwide, although highly uneven, distribution in tropical and subtropical regions. The bulk of the approximately 1,000 species occur in the New World tropics, especially in the northern Andes, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic Forest (coastal forests) of eastern Brazil. Other centers of diversity include New Caledonia and Madagascar. Many species new to science have been and are in the process of being described from these regions. For example, 37 new species of Eugenia have been described from Mesoamerica in the past few years.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum:
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Myrtales
Family:Myrtaceae
Genus:Eugenia
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