Syzygium australe(J.C.Wendl. ex Link) B.Hyland

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WFO wfo-0000318281 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Syzygium australe, photographed by Dave Richardson
fig. a Dave Richardson, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-29 / obs. 191511395
Syzygium australe, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. b Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 188484279
Syzygium australe, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. c Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 179236963
Syzygium australe, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. d Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175599036
Syzygium australe, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. e Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 166253314
Syzygium australe, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 170126819
Syzygium australe, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 126429943
Syzygium australe, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 116941032

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Syzygium australe is native: New South Wales, Queensland New South WalesQueensland
Native distribution of Syzygium australe, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
New South Wales NSW AUSTRALASIA
Queensland QLD

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Eugenia australis J.C.Wendl. ex Link
  • Eugenia myrtifolia Sims
  • Eugenia simmondsiae F.M.Bailey
  • Jambosa australis (J.C.Wendl. ex Link) DC.
  • Jambosa myrtifolia Heynh.
  • Jambosa thozetiana F.Muell.
  • Myrtus australis (J.C.Wendl. ex Link) Spreng.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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