Symplocos wikstroemifolia
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Description
Shrub 1½ rn, or tree to 20 m.
Leaves often only towards the end of the twigs, minutely sparsely appressedly fine hairy beneath, acuminate, with cuneate base and nearly entire margin, (narrowly) elliptic to obovate, 6-15½ by 1¾-4½ cm;
Flowers in an often branched spike from the axils of the leaves, the lower ones from wood.
Flowers ♂ or, probably all flowers on one plant alike.
Stamens 15-20 in ♂ flowers, 5, alterni-petalous, in flowers (observed once).
Ovary glabrous or finely appressedly short hairy, ½ mm high in ♂, l-l½ mm in flowers;
Fruit ovoid, or slightly constricted towards the apex, 10-12 by 6-8 mm.
Seed 1, curved, with curved embryo.
Distribution
Asia-Temperate: Hainan (Hainan present), Asia-Tropical: Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present), Continental SE. Asia present, Fraser's Hill present, G. Benom present, G. Paking present, G. Tahan present, Pahang present, Southern America: Argentina Northeast (Formosa present)
Continental SE. Asia (Indo-China, China, Hainan, Formosa); in Malesia: Malay Peninsula (Pahang: G. Paking, G. Benom, Fraser's Hill, G. Tahan).