Syzygium antisepticum

Syzygium antisepticum, or shore eugenia, is native to the floristic region of Malesia.

Description

Syzygium antisepticum is a medium-size tree usually reaching tall with a trunk about diameter. Buttresses may or may not be present, and it has a distinctive red flaky bark. New growth is reddish and. Leaves are glossy dark green on the upper side and paler on the lower side, measure up to long and wide, and have a "drip tip" up to long. The flowers are compact in the inflorescence. Fruits are, white and about diamter.

Taxonomy

This species was first described in 1828 as Caryophyllus antisepticus by Carl Ludwig Blume. More than a hundred years later, American botanists Elmer Drew Merrill and Lily May Perry transferred it the genus Syzygium. It has been suggested that this species is part of a species complex which also includes S. gratum, S. ovatifolium, and S. zeylanicum.

Distribution

The plant is endemic to the islands of Sumatra, Java, and Borneo of the Greater Sunda Islands archipelago. It inhabits deciduous and evergreen forests, mangrove forests, and savannah, at altitudes from sea level up to about.