Symplocos rubiginosa
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Description
Shrub, or tree to 30 m high and 50 cm ø.
Leaves sparsely appressedly pilose to more or less densely patently soft-villous beneath, especially on midrib and nerves, usually abruptly acuminate with cuneate base and finely to rather coarsely dentate margin, narrowly elliptic to obovate, 15-45 by 5¾-17cm;
Flowers in a spike from wood beneath or between the leaves;
Stamens 60-100.
Ovary pubescent to tomentellous or with same indument as calyx, 1-2 mm high;
Fruit blue in vivo, ovoid to ellipsoid, sparsely short pilose to glabrous, 8-10 by 5-8 mm;
Seed 1, once or twice and then S-shaped curved due to the constriction of the stone.