Symplocos sumuntia
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Description
Low shrub to medium-sized tree.
Leaves glabrous, acuminate to caudate with attenuate base and glandular dentate margin, ± elliptic, 2-10 by ¾-4½ cm;
Stamens 25-40.
Ovary glabrous to shortly sparsely appressedly hairy, 1-2 mm high;
Fruit ovoid to ampulliform, 6-10 by 3-6 mm;
Seed curved, embryo once or twice curved.
Distribution
Asia-Temperate: China Southeast (Hong Kong present); Hainan (Hainan present); Korea present, Asia-Tropical: India present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Thailand (Thailand present), Burma present, Cameron Highlands present, Japan present, Pahang present, Ryu Kyu Is present, Southern America: Argentina Northeast (Formosa present), continental Asia present
Continental Asia (India, Burma, Thailand, Indo-China, China, Hong Kong, Hainan, Formosa, Ryu Kyu Is., Japan, and Korea); in Malesia: Malay Peninsula (Pahang: Cameron Highlands and G. Tahan), 3 collections.