Symplocos ophirensis
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Description
Shrub or tree to 18 m high and 50 cm Ø.
Leaves glabrous, except sometimes the very youngest, cuneate or rounded to acuminate, with cuneate base and entire, glandular crenulate to denticulate or serrate margin, elliptic to ovate or obovate, 5-22 by 1ll2-7 cm;
Flowers in a short raceme, a 3-5-branched panicle of racemes or a spike of 1—3(—6 in Sumatra) cm, rarely only 1-3 flowers together;
Stamens 20-60, but more than 75 in var. pachyphylla.
Ovary mostly with same indument as inflorescence axis, or densely appressedly pubescent, rarely glabrous, c. 1½ mm high (2½ mm in var. pachyphylla);
Fruit ampulliform, with long neck, to ovoid, rarely ellipsoid or cylindrical;
Seed 1, embryo obscurely S-shaped, curved with an angle of c. 90° ± halfway its length, or twice screw-like curved.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Central West Sumatra present, Lingga Is present
Malesia: Central West Sumatra (incl. Lingga Is.), Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Celebes, and throughout the Philippines.