Syzygium rostratum (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Syzygium rostratum (Blume) DC.

Protologue: Prodr. 3: 261 (1828).

Synonyms

Eugenia tenuicuspis (Miq.) Koord. & Valeton (1900).

Distribution

Sumatra, Java, Borneo (Sabah) and Irian Jaya.

Uses

The timber is occasionally used for house building.

Observations

A medium-sized tree up to 20 m tall, bole up to 50 cm in diameter, bark surface smooth to finely fissured, greyish; leaves ovate to lanceolate, 7-9 cm × 3-7 cm, with linear, rounded acumen and numerous close-set secondary veins, petiole c. 10 mm long; flowers mostly in axillary, short panicles, white, calyx c. 6 mm long, with 4 small lobes; fruit ellipsoid, c. 15 mm long, pinkish-white. S. rostratum is closely related to S. syzygioides . It occurs in Java in humid forest at 1300-1700 m altitude, in Sabah up to 2400 m altitude. The density of the wood is about 930 kg/m³at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

36, 221, 303, 429, 474.