Syzygium leucocladum Merr. & Perry, Mem. Amer. Ac. 18 (1939)

Synonyms
Eugenia ambongensis var. havilandii Ridl.
Syzygium ambongense var. havilandii (Ridl.) Masamune

Diagnostics
Canopy tree up to 80 cm dbh. Stipules absent. Leaves opposite, simple, penni-veined, venation conspicuous, glabrous. Flowers ca. 6 mm diameter, whitish?, with protruding stamens, flowers placed in compressed panicles. Fruits ca. 17 mm diameter, green-pinkish, fleshy berries.

Description
Canopy tree to 80 cm diameter, with whitish green smooth bark and pale brown inner bark. Parts hairless. Twig c.3 mm diameter, distinctly angled, conspicuously cream, smooth. Leaf blade c.17 x 6(10-23 x 3.5-9) cm, elliptic, papery, drying wrinkled, dull tawny above, greenish brown beneath; base wedge-shaped, abruptly joining the c.5 mm short stalk, acumen c.1 cm subcaudate, slender; densely pitted and pimpled above, conspicuously densely brown dotted beneath; veins distinctly and equally raised on both surfaces, subequal, main c.25 pairs, furrowed above, somewhat ascending; tertiaries obscure above, distinct beneath; intramarginal veins 2, the main 2-3 mm within margin, looped. Panicle to 11 cm long, to 3-terminal, 2-branched, bluntly quadrangular. Flower bud to 6 x 5 mm, goblet-shaped, tapering into a c.3 mm tapering pseudostalk; sepal lobes 4, to 2 x 2 mm, ovate, subacute, thick but with narrowly hyaline margin, becoming reflexed at anthesis; stamens many, extruded 3 mm, style 4 mm. Fruit to 20 x 14 mm, ellipsoid, with prominent apical ring of persistent sepal lobes. [from Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak]

Ecology
In undisturbed to disturbed (open) mixed dipterocarp forests up to 100 m altitude. Usually along rivers and streams on clay soils.

Distribution
Borneo.