Syzygium filiforme (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Syzygium filiforme (Wallich ex Duthie) P. Chantaranothai & J. Parnell
- Protologue: Kew Bull. 48: 598 (1993).
Synonyms
Eugenia filiformis Wallich ex Duthie (1878).
Vernacular names
- Malaysia: kelat api, kelat merah, kelat manek (Peninsular).
Distribution
South-western Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore.
Uses
The timber is used for house building.
Observations
A small to large tree up to 42 m tall, bole up to 85 cm in diameter, slightlyfluted and with short buttresses, bark surface smooth to finely cracked, reddish-brown or dark brown; leaves lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or oblong-elliptical, 5-11 cm × 2-5 cm, with up to 16 pairs of inconspicuous secondary veins, petiole up to 7 mm long; flowers in axillary or terminal racemes, sometimes solitary, white, with filiform pedicel, calyx up to 10 mm long, with 4 short and equal lobes; fruit globose or depressed globose, up to 15 mm in diameter, greenish. S. filiforme is common in lowland rain forest up to 700(-900) m altitude. The wood is fawn-coloured to olive brown; the density is about 820 kg/m3at 15% moisture content.
Selected sources
78, 90, 104, 140, 529, 705.