Symplocos zizyphoides
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Description
Small shrub, ½ rn, to treelet to 4(-10) m high.
Leaves alternate, olive-yellow beneath and dark brown to green above when dry, glabrous above, nearly glabrous to appressedly fine-pilose beneath, faintly acuminate with rounded to cuneate base and sharply glandular dentate margin, ovate to elliptic, 2½-5½ by l-2½ cm;
Flowers solitary and pedicels to 12 mm, or flowers up to 3 or 4 together in a raceme and then with very short pedicel, except sometimes the uppermost flower;
Stamens 40 to more than 100.
Ovary appressedly pubescent, 1-1½ mm high;
Fruit purple to blackish when ripe, ellipsoid to ovoid, sometimes a little curved, 10-12 by 5-6 mm.
Seed 1, straight with straight embryo.