Garcinia brevirostris
Scheff.
ClusiaceaeFruit
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The fruit are eaten.
Where to Find It
A tropical plant.
Andaman Islands, Asia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pacific, Papua New Guinea, PNG, Philippines, SE Asia,
Countries: United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Brunei, Bhutan, China, Fiji, Micronesia, Georgia, Indonesia, Israel, India, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Kiribati, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Marshall Islands, Myanmar, Mongolia, Maldives, Malaysia, Nepal, Nauru, New Zealand, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Pakistan, Palau, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, Singapore, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Tonga, Turkey, Tuvalu, Taiwan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen
How to Identify
A tree. The small branches are slender and stiff. The leaves are crowded at the ends of branches. The leaves are opposite and sword shaped tapering gradually to the tip. The leaves are 9 cm long by 2.5 cm wide. The leaf stalk is 0.4 cm long. The flower clusters are in the axils of leaves. The flowers occur singly on the cluster. The fruit is oval and curved. It is 1.5 cm long. The fruit do not have a stalk.
Notes
There are about 300 Garcinia species.
Names & Synonyms
Basan
Garcinia eugeniifolia Wall. ex T. AndersonGarcinia gitingensis ElmerHebradendron eugeniifolium Choisy
References (4)
- Borrell, O.W., 1989, An Annotated Checklist of the Flora of Kairiru Island, New Guinea. Marcellin College, Victoria Australia. p 83 (As Garcinia eugeniaefolia)
- Mohd, N. G. et al, 2014, A Preliminary Flora Survey in Gunung Kajang, Pulau Tioman, Pahang Darul Makmur, Malaysia. Malays. Appl. Biol. 43(2): 17-23 (As Garcinia eugeniaefolia)
- Saw, L.G., LaFrankie, J. V. Kochummen, K. M., Yap S. K., 1991, Fruit Trees in a Malaysian Rain Forest. Economic Botany, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 120-136 (As Garcinia eugeniaefolia)
- Uji, T., 2007, Keanekaragaman, Persebaran dan Potensi Jenis-jenis Garcinia. Berk. Penel. Hayati: 12 (129–135), 2007
