• Family : MYRTACEAE
• Family (As per The Plant List) : Myrtaceae
• Species : Syzygium travancoricum
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Syzygium travancoricum Gamble
• Endemism : South-west India
• Key identification features : Tall evergreen trees with older ones buttressed at the base. Young branchlets 4-angled; in the saplings the angles are winged. Trees growing along water bodies have floating water roots, an adaptation to swampy habitat. Leaves are simple, opposite, ovate and bluntly acute towards the tip with long petiole, chartaceous (papery). Flowers occur in the axils of leaves in corymbose cymes of 5-8 cm long They are very small, only 3 mm across. Petals white form a calyptra (cap) in the bud enclosing the stamens. Fruits 0.7-1 cm across, purplish to maroon-red. Fruits ripen in May- June.
• Habit : Tree
• Native : India
• Comments : Often in swampy places.
• Conservation Status : Critically Endangered (CR)
• Distribution Locality : Dakshina Kannada, Uttara Kannada
• Floras referred : Ramachandra T.V, et al- Discovery of Two Critically Endangered Tree Species and Issues Related to Relic Forests of the Western Ghats, The Open Conservation Biology Journal, 2008, 2, 1-8.; Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1918: 240 1918.; Krishnakumar et al, 2006- J.Econ. Taxon. Bot. Vol.30. No.4.

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