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Syzygium polycephaloides; photograph (c) oliswell, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) oliswell, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2025-05-15

Syzygium polycephaloides (C.B.Rob.) Merr.

Lipute

Myrtaceae · Lesser Sunda Is., Philippines +1

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Summary

Syzygium polycephaloides, commonly known as lipote, is a species of tree native to the Philippines, southeastern Sulawesi, and the Lesser Sunda Islands. It bears edible red to purple berries that can be eaten fresh but are usually turned into jams or wine in the Philippines. The tree grows to a height of around 15 m (49 ft). The leaves are oblong in shape and are around 50 cm (20 in) long and 15 cm (5.9 in) wide. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Syzygium polycephaloides", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Syzygium

Syzygium is a genus of flowering plants that belongs to the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. The genus comprises about 1200 species, and has a native range that extends from Africa and Madagascar through southern Asia east through the Pacific. Its highest levels of diversity occur from Malaysia to northeastern Australia, where many species are very poorly known and many more have not been described taxonomically. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Syzygium", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 14 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 14 of the 14 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeLesser Sunda Is., Philippines, Sulawesi · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker12.542, 124.098 · in the densest population, 9 records (64% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 14 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 11 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 12 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 14 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 14 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Other Syzygium 85 in the reference

Syzygium acre Syzygium acre Myrtaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, didierSyzygium acuminatissimum Syzygium acuminatissimum Myrtaceae Photo: CC BY, Cheng-Te HsuSyzygium alatoramulum Syzygium alatoramulum Tinkling stainash Photo: CC BY-SA, Steve FitzgeraldSyzygium alliiligneum Syzygium alliiligneum Mission Beach satinash Photo: CC BY-SA, Evert MatermanSyzygium angophoroides Syzygium angophoroides Swamp Satinash Photo: CC BY, Roland MuenchSyzygium anisatum Syzygium anisatum Anise myrtle Photo: CC BY-SA, Lachlan CopelandSyzygium antisepticum Syzygium antisepticum Myrtaceae Photo: CC BY, luluchouetteSyzygium apodophyllum Syzygium apodophyllum Rex Satinash Photo: CC BY-SA, Evert MatermanSyzygium aqueum Syzygium aqueum Watery rose apple Photo: CC BY, T R Shankar Raman Syzygium armstrongii Small White Bush Apple Syzygium aromaticum Syzygium aromaticum Clove Photo: CC BY, Eric KnightSyzygium australe Syzygium australe Australian brush-cherry Photo: CC BY, Dave Richardson all 86 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Eugenia polycephaloides. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Myrtaceae
Described by
(C.B.Rob.) Merr.
Native to
Lesser Sunda Is., Philippines, Sulawesi
Wild records
14 in range · 11 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2214 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 5 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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