Syzygium elliptilimbum (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Syzygium elliptilimbum (Merr.) Merr. & Perry

Protologue: Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 18: 187 (1939).

Synonyms

Eugenia elliptilimba Merr. (1917).

Distribution

Borneo (Sarawak, Kalimantan) and the Philippines (Mindanao).

Uses

The timber is reputed to be used as kelat.

Observations

A medium-sized tree, bark surface pale brown; leaves elliptical to broadly oblong-elliptical, 12-18 cm × 5.5-8 cm, with c. 20 pairs of distinct secondary veins, petiole up to 8 mm long; flowers in terminal corymbose panicles, calyx truncate at apex, without distinct lobes; fruit unknown. S. elliptilimbum occurs in primary forest at low and medium altitudes; in Sarawak it grows locally on friable sandy-clay soils in mixed dipterocarp forest.

Selected sources

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