Eugenia polita (PROSEA)
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Introduction |
Eugenia polita King
- Protologue: Journ. As. Soc. Beng. pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 70: 110 (1901).
Vernacular names
- Malaysia: kelat nasi nasi, kelat nenasi (Peninsular).
Distribution
Peninsular Malaysia.
Uses
The timber is reputed to be used as kelat.
Observations
A shrub to medium-sized tree up to 25 m tall, bark surface thinly flaky, rufous-orange; leaves lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 4.5-9 cm × 2-3.5 cm, with up to 14 pairs of secondary veins indistinct above and distinct or indistinct below, leaves subsessile; flowers sessile in axillary and terminal panicles, white, calyx with 5 conspicuous and persistent lobes; fruit globose or ovoid-globose, c. 6 mm in diameter, greenish-white. E. polita is locally common on rocky locations in hilly and mountainous habitats up to 1700 m altitude. The wood is purplish-brown; the density is about 840 kg/m3at 15% moisture content.
Selected sources
104, 140, 529, 705.