Trees or shrubs; hairs simple. Indeterminate inflorescence which produces a floral region that, for instance, produces monads, dyads or triads and vegetative innovative shoots, as an auxotelic inflorescence (Briggs and Johnson 1989); bracteoles linear or narrowly elliptic persistent at anthesis but caducous in mature fruits; flowers showy always 4–merous; sepals showy, free, foliaceous, sepals and petals concealing the apex of the bud; ovary 2–locular; ovules 2–many, placenta axile. Fruit crowned by the calyx lobes. Seeds 1–2; seed coat membranous or cartilaginous; embryo with fused cotyledons.

Eugenia speciosa Cambess. Fl. Bras. Merid. 2 (19): 351. 1832.

Eugenia sect. Speciosae contains six species with three occurring in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, and one distributed in northern South America, in the Amazon. The Atlantic Forest-Amazon disjunction distribution represents a classic biogeographic pattern of the Southern Hemisphere (McVaugh 1968).