taxonID	type	description	language	source
039387F47A01AF3FFFEDF36466115D57.taxon	description	Flowering & fruiting: Flowering and fruiting from March to May. Habitat: Syzygium syzygioides is found in the lowland mixed evergreen forests, at an elevation of ± 110 m above sea level and is associated with Syzygium mundagam (Bourd.) Chithra (Myrtaceae), Ixora brachiata Roxb. ex DC. (Rubiaceae), Artocarpus hirsutus Lam. (Moraceae), Lannea coromandelica (Houtt.) Merr. (Anacardiaceae), Macaranga peltata (Roxb.) Muell. - Arg. (Euphorbiaceae), Mallotus philippensis (Lam.) Muell. - Arg. (Euphorbiaceae), Calycopteris floribunda (Roxb.) Poiret (Combretaceae), Aporosa cardiosperma (Gaertn.) Merr. (Euphorbiaceae), Capparis fusifera Dunn (Capparidaceae), Mangifera indica L. (Anacardiaceae), Flacourtia montana Graham (Flacourtiaceae), Xanthophyllum arnottianum Wight (Xanthophyllaceae), Artabotrys hexapetalus (Linn. f.) Bhandari (Annonaceae), Salacia brunoniana Wight & Arn. (Celastraceae), Terminalia paniculata Roth (Combretaceae), etc. Distribution: Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Malesia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. Specimens examined: INDIA. Kerala, Kollam district, Arippa, ± 110 m., 08.03.2019, S. M. Shareef 79283, 79284; Ibid., 16.03.2019, S. M. Shareef 79287, 79288; Ibid., 30.04.2019, S. M. Shareef 79292 (TBGT). Notes: Syzygium syzygoides is an elegant tree which is more attractive during its flushing and flowering periods. It can be easily recognized from other species in the Western Ghats by the presence of slender and terete branchlets, crimson coloured young foliage, axillary and terminal inflorescences, small but white flowers with reddish tinged hypanthium and petals and small globose to subglobose fruits. The ripe fruits are edible (Deb, 1981), sweet but are not used by the inhabitants of the present locality. The author noticed that the seedlings of this species are collected by the forest nursery at Kulathupuzha, near Arippa and are planted in degraded forest areas of Kollam, Pathanamthitta and Thiruvananthapuram districts as part of afforestation programmes. They locally named it as ‘ Tholnjaval ’, but correct identity of the species was unknown to them. As part of ex-situ conservation, this species was successfully introduced in Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Palode, Thiruvananthapuram.	en	S. M., Shareef (2020): Syzygium syzygioides (Myrtaceae), a new distributional record for Peninsular India. Rheedea 30 (2): 307-311, DOI: 10.22244/rheedea.2020.30.02.08, URL: https://doi.org/10.22244/rheedea.2020.30.02.08
