Syzygium nitidum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Syzygium nitidum Benth.

Protologue: Hook., Lond. Journ. Bot. 2: 221 (1843).

Eugenia benthamii A. Gray (1854).

• Philippines: makaasim (general).

The Philippines, Tobi Island (Caroline Islands, USA).

The timber is used for general construction, ship building, furniture, telegraph poles and implements.

A medium-sized tree up to 25 m tall, bole up to 60 cm in diameter, bark surface slightly flaky, brown; leaves elliptical-oblong to broadly oblanceolate, 8-14 cm × 3-6 cm, with 8-12 pairs of indistinct secondary veins, petiole fairly long; flowers subsessile in terminal, sometimes lateral, paniculate, densely flowered inflorescences, white, calyx c. 10 mm long, with 4 broad and persistent lobes; fruit globose, c. 15 mm in diameter, greenish. S. nitidum occurs in well-drained rain forest at low and medium altitudes. The reddish-brown wood is available in very limited quantities.

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