Syzygium duthieanum (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Syzygium duthieanum (King) Masam.
- Protologue: Enum. Phan. Born.: 527 (1942).
Synonyms
Eugenia duthieana King (1901).
Vernacular names
- Malaysia: biareh rimba, kelat balak, kelat puteh (Peninsular).
Distribution
Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore.
Uses
The timber is used in house building.
Observations
A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 36 m tall, bole up to 60 cm in diameter, with short buttresses up to 1 m high, bark surface smooth, scaly or dippled, red-brown; leaves elliptical to elliptical-lanceolate or elliptical-ovate, 5-15 cm × 3-6.5 cm, with up to 8 pairs of indistinct secondary veins, petiole 5-7 mm long; flowers in axillary or terminal racemes, white, calyx c. 5 mm long, with 4 small lobes; fruit globular to slightly pear-shaped, knobby, c. 2 cm long, greenish. S. duthieanum occurs in lowland and hill forest up to 800 m altitude. The wood is dark red to purplish-brown; the density is about 850 kg/m3at 15% moisture content.
Selected sources
78, 90, 140, 529, 705.