Salacia oblongifolia Blume

Liana up to c. 30 m. Stipules triangular, laciniate. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic-oblong to-lanceolate, broad-elliptic, or obovate, 6-17½ by 2¼-7 cm; base cuneate, or obtuse; apex short-acuminate to cuspidate; margin crenulate or subentire; nerves 5-10 pairs; petiole 8-17 mm. Inflorescences axillary, condensed cymes, very short, usually less than 1.5 cm long, internodes of the rachises invisible, few-flowered, usually appearing as a very short or obscure peduncle bearing 2 or 3 slender bracteolate branches. Bracts deltoid, c. 1 mm long, slightly erose at the margin. Pedicels 3-4 mm. Flowers yellowish or yellowish green, floral parts usually with abundant sulphur-yellow particles in the tissue. Calyx lobes ± erect at anthesis, triangular, or +-semi-orbicular, 0.5-1 mm long, erose or glanduliform at the margin. Petals unequal, the inner one or 2 smaller than the others, rather fleshy, +-oblong, or broad-obovate, 2-3 by 1-2½ mm, obtuse, margin thin and slightly erose. Disk usually ± flat, orbicular, the outer margin thin and sometimes turning upward, rarely convex at the central part caused by the abundant sulphurlike particles, 1-1½ mm ø, 1/3-1/2 mm high. Stamens 3, 0.5-1.5 mm. Pistil 0.5-1 mm emerging from the disk. Ovary 3-celled. Ovules (3-)4(-6) in each cell, in two series. Fruit subglobose, or very broad-obovoid, 4-8(-12) by 3.5-4.5(-7) cm, slightly contracted at the base, pinkish or red. Seeds ± ellipsoid or subglobose, 1.5-2.25 by 1½ cm, covered with dried pulp.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in lowland forests and up to 1,000 m above sea level. It can be found on sandstone and in swamp and peat forests.

The pulp of the fruit is eaten.

Can be grown by seedlings.