阔叶蒲桃 kuo ye pu tao

Eugenia megacarpa Craib, Fl. Siam. 1: 652. 1931; E. latilimba Merrill; Syzygium latilimbum (Merrill) Merrill & L. M. Perry.

Trees, to 20 m tall. Branchlets green when dried, slightly compressed. Petiole 5-10 mm; leaf blade narrowly long elliptic to elliptic, 14-30 × 6-13 cm, leathery, abaxially pale green when dry, adaxially green when dry, both surfaces without conspicuous glands, secondary veins 15-22 on each side of midvein and 1-1.3 cm apart, reticulate veins conspicuous, intramarginal veins 4-5 mm from margin and an additional inconspicuous intramarginal vein ca. 1.5 mm from margin, base rounded to sometimes cordate, apex acuminate. Inflorescences terminal, cymes, 2-6-flowered; peduncle very short. Flowers white, large. Hypanthium long obconic, 1.5-2 × ca. 1.5 cm. Calyx lobes 4, rounded, 6-7 × 8-9 mm. Petals distinct, rounded, ca. 2 cm. Stamens numerous, 2.5-3 cm. Style ca. 4 cm. Fruit ovoid-globose, ca. 5 cm. Fl. Apr-Oct, fr. Jul-Oct.

Moist low forests, riversides; 300-1200 m. Hainan, Guangxi, S and SW Yunnan [Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam].