Syzygium glaucum (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Syzygium glaucum (King) P. Chantaranothai & J. Parnell
- Protologue: Kew Bull. 48: 598 (1993).
Synonyms
Eugenia glauca King (1901).
Vernacular names
- Thailand: daeng (Trang).
Distribution
Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore.
Uses
The timber is reputed to be used as kelat.
Observations
A medium-sized to large tree up to 45 m tall, bole up to 80 cm in diameter, with buttresses up to 3 m high, bark surface fissured and scaly, red to reddish-grey; leaves obovate to elliptical-lanceolate, 3.5-11 cm × 2-6 cm, with c. 15 pairs of distinct secondary veins, petiole up to 10 mm long; flowers in few-flowered axillary or terminal racemes or panicles, whitish, calyx c. 4 mm long, with 4 minute and deciduous lobes; fruit globose to slightly pear-shaped, up to 28 mm in diameter. S. glaucum occurs in lowland forest, in Thailand up to 1600 m altitude. The wood is purplish grey-brown.
Selected sources
90, 140, 529, 705.