Symplocos celastrifolia
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Description
Shrub or small tree, rarely up to 30 m high and 60 cm ø.
Leaves glabrous, or rarely sparsely fine-hairy on midrib and nerves beneath, often the upper surface dark coloured to nearly black when dry and the undersurface olive brown, ± elliptic, with cuneate-attenuate base, crenate margin and mostly abruptly acuminate apex, 5½-15 by 2¼-6 cm;
Stamens 40-c. 60.
Ovary glabrous, c. 1 mm high;
Seed and embryo U-shaped.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa absent); Malaya present; Sumatera (Sumatera present), E. of Makassar Straits present, East Malesia present, Lesser Sunda Is absent, Peninsular Thailand present, most of the Moluccas absent, northern half of Celebes absent, northern islands of the Philippines absent
Peninsular Thailand and throughout Malesia, except in Java, the Lesser Sunda Is., the northern islands of the Philippines, the northern half of Celebes, and most of the Moluccas. The number of collections in Sumatra and East Malesia (E. of Makassar Straits) is small compared with those in Malaya and especially Borneo.