Syzygium laetum (Ham.) Gandhi

 
  • Family : MYRTACEAE
  • Family (As per The Plant List) : Myrtaceae
  • Species : Syzygium laetum
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Syzygium laetum (Buch.-Ham.) Gandhi
  • Common name : Madle
  • Vernacular name : Dev Jambhul (Hin.)
  • Collection Nos : KFP 12580, CJS 12945, CJS 15813
  • Endemism : Western Ghats
  • Key identification features : A small evergreen tree with slender terete drooping branches. Leaves are opposite, lanceolate and acuminate. Flowers occur in drooping, terminal, corymbose cymes. Flowers are with many scarlet red or white projecting stamens. Fruits 2-3 cm., ellipsoid, reddish-brown. Bark is brown and minutely scaly.
  • Habit : Tree
  • Native : India
  • Comments : Distinguished from other Syzygium by its crimson-red exserted stamens.
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Distribution Locality : Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Hassan, Kodagu, Shimoga, Uttara Kannada
  • Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1996; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg

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