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Syzygium palghatense
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Family:
MYRTACEAE
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Citation: Syzygium palghatense Gamble, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1918: 240. 1918 & Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 480(339). 1919; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 122. 2002; Sujanapal & Sasidh., Rheedea 12: 189. 2002.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Sevappunjaval
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Trees, to 15 m high, bark greyish outside and muddy brown inside, smooth; branchlets subtetragonous, become terete on maturity. Leaves simple, opposite or subopposite, estipulate; petiole 3-5 mm, slender, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 3.5-8.3 x 2-3.5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-oblong or elliptic-obovate, base cuneate or acute, apex obtusely acuminate or acute, margin reflexed, glabrous, chartaceous, sparsely gland dotted on lower surface; lateral nerves many, parallel, slightly distant, slender, 2-4 mm apart with numerous secondary laterals, faint, looped at the margin forming intramarginal nerve, intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers bisexual, white, in terminal or axillary cymes of 2-3 cm long; pedicel to 2 mm long; calyx tube funnel shaped, 8-12 mm long, 5 mm at mouth; lobes 4; no thick disc; petals 2.5 mm across, creamy white, calyptrate, cauducous at early stage; stamens many, to 8 mm long, bent inwards in middle at bud; ovary inferior, 2-celled, ovules many; style 1;stigma simple. Fruit a berry 10-13 x 4-5 mm, obconic with a hollow depression at apex, crowned by the calyx limb, prominently ribbed on drying.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-June
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District(s):
Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats (Kerala)
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
White
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
Yes
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
Kerala
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IUCN status:
Critically Endangered (CR)
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Pandaravarai
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