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|accepted_name=Eugenia confusa
|accepted_authority=de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Prodr.
|place=3: 279. 1828
|year=1828
}}
|common_names=Ironwood;redberry stopper
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eugenia garberi
|authority=Sargent
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Myrtaceae;Eugenia;Eugenia confusa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Myrtaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Eugenia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eugenia confusa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 10
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>or shrubs, to ca. 6 m, glabrous or glabrate throughout. <b>Twigs</b> terete or weakly compressed; bark reddish brown, tan, or gray. <b>Leaves</b> drying green or olive; petiole channeled, 3–9 mm; blade ovate to elliptic-ovate, 2.5–6 × 1–3 cm, leathery, base rounded to cuneate, margins cartilaginous, apex caudate-acuminate, surfaces with numerous or obscure glands, smooth adaxially when fresh, often appearing wrinkled when dry. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1–8-flowered, racemes, solitary; axis 1–4 mm; bud obconic, ca. 2 mm; bracteoles caducous around anthesis, ovate, 0.5–1 mm, base distinct, apex obtuse to rounded. <b>Pedicels</b> 6–15 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium obconic, 1.5–2 mm; calyx lobes in unequal pairs, larger pair 1–1.5 × 0.5–0.8 mm, apex rounded; petals obovate, 3–3.5 × 2.5–3.5 mm, apex rounded; disc 2 mm diam.; stamens ca. 40, 2–3.5 mm; style 2–5 mm. <b>Berries</b> bright red, globose to obovoid, 6–9 mm diam.; calyx persistent.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting year-round.
|habitat=Coastal hammocks.
|elevation=0–20 m.
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies.
|discussion=<p>Eugenia confusa is known in the flora area from Martin and Miami-Dade counties, and the Keys in Monroe County.</p>
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name=Eugenia confusa
|authority=de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Eugenia garberi
|basionyms=
|family=Myrtaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting year-round.
|habitat=Coastal hammocks.
|elevation=0–20 m.
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies.
|reference=None
|publication title=Prodr.
|publication year=1828
|special status=
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|genus=Eugenia
|species=Eugenia confusa
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