Symplocos anomala
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Description
Shrub or tree to 21 m, 40 cm ø.
Leaves glabrous, brownish or olive to yellowish green glossy above, elliptic, acuminate with cuneate-attenuate base and more or less revolute finely glandular dentate to nearly entire margin, 2½-12 by 1¼-3 cm;
Stamens 50 to more than 100.
Ovary tomentose to (finely) appressedly pubescent, c. ½-l½ mm high;
Fruit 3-celled, ellipsoid, violet, almost black, c. 10 by 6 mm in Malaya, 10-13 by 6-8 mm in Borneo.
Seed 1 in each cell, straight with straight embryo.
Distribution
Asia-Temperate: Hainan (Hainan present), Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Malaya present; Thailand (Thailand present), Banka present, Burma present, Japan present, N. Sumatra present, Penang present, Ryu Kyu Is present, Southern America: Argentina Northeast (Formosa present), continental Asia present
Continental Asia (Burma, Thailand, Indo-China, China incl. Hainan, Japan, Ryu Kyu Is., Formosa) and Malesia: Malaya (incl. Penang), N. Sumatra (incl. Banka), and Borneo.