Eugenia subdecussata (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Eugenia subdecussata Wallich ex Duthie
- Protologue: Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 491 (1878).
Vernacular names
- Malaysia: kelat belian, kelat asam, samak pulut (Peninsular).
Distribution
Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Sumatra.
Uses
The timber is used for house building.
Observations
A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, bole up to 55 cm in diameter, with short buttresses up to 1.5 m high, bark surface smooth to fissured or dippled and scaly, greyish-brown to pale pinkish-brown; leaves elliptical or oblong-elliptical, 5-15 cm × 2-7 cm, with up to 15 pairs of indistinct secondary veins, often subsessile or with petiole up to 2.5(-5) mm long; flowers in axillary or terminal panicles, greenish-yellow, calyx with 5 obscure lobes; fruit globose to pear-shaped, up to 2.5 cm long, greenish. E. subdecussata is common in lowland forest; it is dwarfed to a shrub on mountain ridges. The wood is brown with a purple-red tinge and durable; the density is about 915 kg/m3at 15% moisture content.
Selected sources
78, 104, 140, 529, 705.