Syzygium triphlebium (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Syzygium triphlebium Diels

Protologue: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 57: 400 (1922).

Distribution

New Guinea.

Uses

The timber is reputed to be used as kelat.

Observations

A medium-sized tree up to 20 m tall; leaves lanceolate, 10-15 cm × 2.5-5 cm, with fairly widely spaced secondary veins distinct below, petiole up to 14 mm long; flowers in axillary and terminal corymbose panicles, small, calyx c. 3 mm long; fruit unknown. S. triphlebium occurs in primary and secondary lowland rain forest and in foothill rain forest up to 1500 m altitude.

Selected sources

141, 221.