Symplocos lancifolia
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Description
Low shrub 1-2 m or tree to 20 m.
Leaves often sparsely appressedly fine-hairy beneath, acuminate, with cuneate to nearly rounded base and mostly finely glandular dentate or undulate margin, (narrowly) ovate, 2-10 by 1½-4¼ cm;
Flowers in a raceme to 3(-7) cm.
Stamens 15-40.
Ovary with same indument as calyx or glabrous, ½-1½ mm high.
Fruit ellipsoid to globose, 3-5 by 2-5 mm, the calyx forming a blunt beak on top;
Seed 1, filling the whole fruit, with U-shaped embryo.
Distribution
Asia-Temperate: China Southeast (Hong Kong present); Hainan (Hainan present), Asia-Tropical: Philippines (Philippines present), Continental SE.-E. Asia present, Luzon present, Mindanao present, Mindoro present, N. India present, Negros present, Panay present, Ryu Kyu Is present, Southern America: Argentina Northeast (Formosa present)
Continental SE.-E. Asia (N. India, Indo-China, China, Hainan, Hong Kong, Ryu Kyu Is., Formosa); in Malesia: Philippines (Luzon, Mindoro, Panay, Negros, Mindanao).
Citation
BRAND 1901 – In: Pfl. R. Heft: 61
Clarke 1882 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 577
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 303
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 300
NOOT. 1975: p. 214. – In: Leid. Bot. Ser.: pl. 21a-d, with full synonymy.
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 299
BRAND 1912 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Bot. 35
ROLFE 1912: Kew Bull.: 157
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 297
BRAND 1908 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Bot. 10
BRAND 1912 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Bot. 36
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 298
NOOT. 1975 – In: Leid. Bot. Ser.: 133
ROLFE 1908 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Bot. 9
BRAND 1901 – In: Pfl. R. Heft: 41