Syzygium napiforme (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Syzygium napiforme (Koord. & Valeton) Merr. & Perry
- Protologue: Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 18: 183 (1939).
Synonyms
Eugenia napiformis Koord. & Valeton (1900).
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: ki tanduk, ki pancar (Sundanese, Java).
Distribution
Peninsular Malaysia, western Java and Borneo (Sabah, East Kalimantan).
Uses
The timber is reputed to be used as kelat.
Observations
A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 36 m tall, bole straight, up to 100 cm in diameter, with up to 2 m high buttresses, bark surface scaly or flaky, reddish-brown; leaves elliptical to oblong, 4.5-16 cm × 1.5-7 cm, with numerous close-set, faintly visible secondary veins, petiole up to 10 mm long; flowers sessile in axillary and terminal subumbelliform, usually few-flowered panicles, calyx up to 13 mm long, coarsely wrinkled to tuberculate, with 4-5 small, persistent lobes; fruit cone-shaped, obconical or obovoid, up to 25 mm long. S. napiforme occurs in lowland peat-swamp and hill forest up to 1800 m altitude.
Selected sources
36, 77, 303, 429, 705.