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*''Memecylon lopezianum'' A.Chev. (1917).

*Water berry, water pear, snake bean tree (En). *Kisa d’eau (Fr). *Mzuari, mzambarau, mzambarau mwitu, lubale, mkongoro, mlungiro (Sw).

– * subsp. ''guineense'': tree up to 20 m tall, leaf apex obtuse to shortly acuminate, fruit up to 1 cm long; from Senegal eastward to Somalia and southward to Namibia, Botswana and South Africa, usually occurring in woodland;

– * subsp. ''afromontanum'' F.White: tree up to 30 m tall, leaf apex distinctly acuminate, fruit up to 2.5 cm long; from Sudan and Ethiopia through East Africa and eastern DR Congo to Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, usually growing in forest;

– * subsp. ''huillense'' (Hiern) F.White: subshrub up to 60 cm tall, leaf apex acute to rounded or notched, fruit up to 3 cm long; DR Congo, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, occurring in grassland;

– * subsp. ''macrocarpum'' (Engl.) F.White: shrub or tree up to 12 m tall, leaves relatively large and broad, apex short-acuminate, fruit up to 4 cm long; from Gambia to Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic and DR Congo, in woodland and seasonally wet grassland.

The wood of various other ''Syzygium'' species is used. ''Syzygium borbonicum'' J.Guého & A.J.Scott is endemic to Réunion, where it is known as ‘bois de pomme’, ‘bois de pomme blanc’, ‘bois de pêche marron’ or ‘bois à écorce blanche’. It is a buttressed tree up to 20 m tall. The wood is used in construction.

=== ''Syzygium cymosumborbonicum'' (Lam===''[[Syzygium borbonicum]]'' J.Guého & A.) DCJ. Scott is endemic to Réunion and Mauritius, where it is known as ‘bois de pomme’ or , ‘bois de pomme rouge’blanc’, ‘bois de pêche marron’ or ‘bois à écorce blanche’. It is a buttressed tree up to 20 m tall, with a bole diameter up to 50 cm. The wood is used for panelsin construction.

=== ''Syzygium cymosum'' ===''[[Syzygium cymosum]]'' (Lam.) DC. is endemic to Réunion and Mauritius, where it is known as ‘bois de pomme’ or ‘bois de pomme rouge’. It is a tree up to 20 m tall, with a bole diameter up to 50 cm. The wood is used for panels. === ''Syzygium micklethwaitii'' ===''[[Syzygium micklethwaitii]]'' Verdc. (synonym: ''Syzygium sclerophyllum'' Brenan) is a shrub or tree up to 30 m tall, restricted to Kenya and Tanzania. The wood is used for mortars, tool handles, utensils and poles. The fruit is edible, and the tree also supplies fodder, shade and amenity.

*Growth rings: (1: growth ring boundaries distinct); (2: growth ring boundaries indistinct or absent). *Vessels: 5: wood diffuse-porous; (12: solitary vessel outline angular); 13: simple perforation plates; 22: intervessel pits alternate; 23: shape of alternate pits polygonal; 26: intervessel pits medium (7–10 μm); 29: vestured pits; 31: vessel-ray pits with much reduced borders to apparently simple: pits rounded or angular; 32: vessel-ray pits with much reduced borders to apparently simple: pits horizontal (scalariform, gash-like) to vertical (palisade); 41: mean tangential diameter of vessel lumina 50–100 μm; 42: mean tangential diameter of vessel lumina 100–200 μm; 47: 5–20 vessels per square millimetre; (48: 20–40 vessels per square millimetre); 56: tyloses common. *Tracheids and fibres: 61: fibres with simple to minutely bordered pits; 66: non-septate fibres present; 69: fibres thin- to thick-walled. *Axial parenchyma: 76: axial parenchyma diffuse; 77: axial parenchyma diffuse-in-aggregates; 80: axial parenchyma aliform; 82: axial parenchyma winged-aliform; 83: axial parenchyma confluent; 93: eight (5–8) cells per parenchyma strand. *Rays: 97: ray width 1–3 cells; (102: ray height > 1 mm); 108: body ray cells procumbent with over 4 rows of upright and/or square marginal cells; 109: rays with procumbent, square and upright cells mixed throughout the ray; 115: 4–12 rays per mm.

* A. Maroyi , Department of Biological Sciences, Bindura University of Science Education, P.B. 1020, Bindura, Zimbabwe

Maroyi, A., 2008. '''Syzygium guineense''' (Willd.) DC. [Internet] Record from PROTA4U. In: Louppe, D., Oteng-Amoako, A.A. & Brink, M. (Editors). PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale), Wageningen, Netherlands. <http://www.prota4u.org/search.asp>. 

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