Syzygium palghatense Gamble

Type
Indigenous
Family
Myrtaceae
Habit
Medium sized tree
Botanical Features

Trees, 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, flowers bisexual, white, in terminal or axillary cymes, fruit a berry.