Symplocos tricoccata
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Description
Shrub 3 m to small tree to 10 m high, 15 cm Ø.
Leaves glabrous, yellowish or olive-grey or water-green, sometimes glossy beneath, acuminate, with acute base and dentate to denticulate margin, ± elliptic, 7-29 by 4-9½ cm;
Flowers in a fascicle or very short spike;
Stamens 40 to more than 100.
Ovary glabrous, c. 2 mm high;
Fruit narrowly obliquely ellipsoid, 12-16 by 4-6 mm, ± triangular in CS, 3-celled, each cell circular in CS;
Seed cylindrical, with straight embryo.