Syzygium chloranthum (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Syzygium chloranthum (Duthie) Merr. & Perry
- Protologue: Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 18: 173 (1939).
Synonyms
Eugenia chlorantha Duthie (1878).
Vernacular names
- Malaysia: kelat merah, kelat jambu merah, kelat lapis (Peninsular).
Distribution
Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra and Borneo (Sarawak, perhaps also Sabah).
Uses
The timber is reputed to be used as kelat. The roots are thought to be used in local medicine.
Observations
A small to medium-sized tree up to 25 m tall, bark surface smooth, greyish-brown to dark reddish-brown; leaves elliptical, ovate-elliptical to lanceolate, 6.5-19.5 cm × 2.5-8.5 cm, with c. 30 pairs of close-set secondary veins distinct below, petiole up to 10 mm long; flowers in axillary and terminal panicles, greenish-white with rose-red stamens, calyx c. 6 mm long, with 4 thick and persistent lobes; fruit subglobose, up to 20 mm in diameter, green flushed rose-purple. S. chloranthum is locally common in lowland and hill forest.
Selected sources
78, 104, 429, 529, 705.