Mammea siamensis (, saraphi, สร้อยภี soiphi in Southern Thai)Mammea siamensis is a species of flowering plant in the Calophyllaceae family. Its name in Vietnamese is Trau tráu, and it is called "salapee" in Thailand and Laos.Gardner, Simon, Pindar Sidisunthorn, and Vilaiwan Anusarnsunthorn. A Field Guide to Forest Trees of Northern Thailand. Bangkok: Kobfai Publishing Project, 2000. It is a tree native to Indochina (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam) and Peninsular Malaysia (Penang). It is a small evergreen tree which grows 5 to 15 metres tall. It has fragrant yellow or white flowers and a small oval fruit. It grows in lowland and montane tropical moist forests from 10 to 1,300 metres elevation.
The species was first described as Calysaccion siamense by Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel in 1863. In 1867 Thomas Anderson placed the species in genus Mammea as M. siamensis.
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External links A terpenoid and two steroids from the flowers of Mammea siamensis