Syzygium

Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite (juveniles and subadults sometimes slightly offset), petiolate, prominently veined. Inflorescence a terminal panicle. Calyx-lobes 4 or 5, smaller than petals; petals 4 or 5, more or less orbicular, sometimes irregular, sepals and petals sometimes united into calyptra (not in Victoria); stamens numerous, anthers reniform with divergent lobes (in Victoria) or anthers linear with parallel lobes; style usually shorter than stamens, stigma small; ovary almost inferior, usually 2–celled. Fruit a firm, usually spherical berry crowned by remains of floral tube; seed usually solitary, testa absent (in Victoria) or soft, leathery or papery, cotyledons fused (in Victoria) or distinct.