Symplocos tricoccata

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Symplocos tricoccata

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.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Kalimantan present, Sabah present, Sarawak present)
Malesia: Borneo (Sarawak, Sabah, and Kalimantan).

Uses

In Sarawak the wood is said to be used for knife handles.