Syzygium maingayi (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Syzygium maingayi P. Chantaranothai & J. Parnell
- Protologue: Kew Bull. 48: 605 (1993).
Synonyms
Eugenia oblongifolia Duthie (1878).
Distribution
Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore.
Uses
The timber is reputed to be used as kelat.
Observations
A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 40 m tall, bole up to 55 cm in diameter, with short buttresses and rarely stilt-rooted, bark surface smooth, greyish-brown; leaves elliptical to oblong-elliptical or oblanceolate, 6-15 cm × 2.5-6 cm, with 10-14 pairs of distant and distinct secondary veins, petiole up to 7 mm long; flowers sessile in axillary and terminal corymbose panicles, whitish, calyx c. 5 mm long, with 5 obscure lobes; fruit depressed globose, c. 17 mm in diameter, pale green when ripe. S. maingayi occurs in lowland and hill forest up to 900 m altitude.
Selected sources
90, 529, 705.