Symplocos trichomarginalis

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Symplocos trichomarginalis

Description

Shrub 1-4 m. Leaves alternate, sparsely appressedly pilose beneath, the midrib and the finely glandular-dentate recurved margin beneath conspicuously densely appressedly brown-pilose, acuminate with cuneate to rounded base, elliptic, 2-3½ by l¼-l¾ cm; Flowers solitary, often several brown-pilose bracts indicating the derivation from a more-flowered inflorescence, the 2 uppermost bracts 3-5 by 1-3 mm, persistent. Stamens c. 50. Ovary with same indument as calyx, c. 1 mm high; Fruit sparsely pilose, ellipsoid to ovoid, green to deep indigo when ripe, 8-9 by c. 4 mm; Seed 1, embryo straight (only young seeds seen).

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Sabah present), Mt Kinabalu present
Malesia: Borneo (Sabah: Mt Kinabalu).

Notes

In habit similar to S. zizyphoides, but differing in the veins being obscure and in the long-pilose calyx with narrow triangular lobes being longer than those of that species.