Eugenia ovigera Brongn. & Gris in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 12: 179. 1865.

≡ Calycorectes ovigera (Brongn. & Gris) Guillaumin in Bull. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat. 25: 503. 1919.

≡ Stereocaryum ovigerum (Brongn. & Gris) Burret in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Mus. Berlin - Dahlem 15: 547. 1941.

Lectotypus (here designated): New CaledoNia. Prov. Sud: Bord de la Rivière d’Unia, 1855-1860, Vieillard 473 (P [P00402692]!; isolecto-: P [P 00402773, P 00402774]!). Syntypus: New CaledoNia. Prov. Sud: île des Pins, 1861, Pancher s.n. (P [P00402713]!)

Notes. ‒ The two syntypes indicated in the protologue are represented by four sheets at P. Although the selected lectotype has only one mature fruit, it exhibits the floral and young fruiting morphology.

Eugenia ovigera is one of several species in New Caledonia in which the calyx lobes split radially during anthesis towards and often beyond the staminal disc.