Salacia ovalis Korth.

Liana up to 12 m. Stipules laciniate, attached along the branchlet just below the articulation of the petiole. Leaves chartaceous, elliptic-oblong, or elliptic, ovate-oblong or obovate-oblong, 5.5-12.5 by 2-5 cm; base cuneate; apex acuminate; margin usually entire, very rarely slightly, remotely crenulate; nerves 4-7 pairs; petiole 3-7 mm. Bracts triangular, 0.75-1 mm long, usually fimbriate. Pedicels 5-11 mm, with elastic threads shown on breaking. Flowers yellowish (once noted), several in fascicles on axillary, short, condensed bracteate tubercles. Calyx lobes triangular or deltoid, 0.5-0.75 mm long, laciniate or short-fimbriate. Petals suborbicular, or broad-elliptic, 1.5-2.5 by 1½-2.25 mm, slightly erose, slightly contracted at the base. Disk discoid, 1-1½ mm ø, c. 1/5 mm high, sometimes slightly 5-angular. Stamens 3, c. 0.75 mm; anthers trans-verse-dehiscent. Pistil c. 0.5 mm emerging from the disk. Ovary 3-celled. Ovules (1-)2 in each cell. Fruit subglobose, 2-3 cm ø.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in thickets and forests in the lowlands and up to 1,200 m above sea level. It is also found on beaches.

The pulp of the fruit is eaten.

Plants can be grown from seeds.