Symplocos deflexa
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Description
Treelet to 6 m high and 8 cm ø.
Leaves alternate, glabrous above, rather densely pilose beneath, especially towards the margin, elliptic, acuminate, obtuse or acute, with rounded or sharply attenuate base and recurved to revolute, sharply glandular dentate margin, 3-5 by l½-2½ cm;
Flowers fragrant, in an up to 6-flowered, 1-4 cm long lax raceme which is appressedly to patently brown pilose in all parts except the corolla.
Petals 5-7, glabrous or the outer ones minutely appressedly hairy, 4-6 mm long.
Stamens 60-90.
Ovary 1½ -2mm high;
Fruit ovoid, often curved, including the persistent calyx c. 10 by 5 mm;
Seed straight with straight embryo.