Symplocos odoratissima

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Description

Tree (shrub) to 30 m high and 50 cm Ø. Leaves glabrous or pubescent beneath, especially on midrib and nerves, with blunt, usually acuminate apex, acute to rarely rounded base and entire or mostly crenulate or dentate margin, (narrowly) elliptic to obovate, 7-20(-40) by (2½-)5-10(-20) cm; Flowers mostly many in a 5-30 cm long panicle which is sometimes only branched towards the base, the axes rusty tomentellous. Stamens more than 100. Ovary with same indument as calyx, 1½-2½ mm high; Fruit glabrous or tomentellous, (obliquely) ovoid (or rarely narrowly flask-shaped, pear-shaped or globular), more or less narrowed towards the apex, 8-25 by 5-20 mm; Seeds curved, with curved embryo.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: New Guinea absent

Throughout Malesia, except New Guinea.

Citation

K. & V. 1900 – In: Bijdr.: 148

BURK. 1935 – In: Dict.: 112

Ridl. 1923 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 299

K. & G. 1906 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 233

BRAND 1901 – In: Pfl. R. Heft: 35

Koord. 1914 – In: Atlas: t. 382

HEYNE 1927: Nutt. Pl.: 1263

Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 468

NOOT. 1975 – In: Leid. Bot. Ser.: 245

GURKE 1891 – In: E. & P., Nat. Pfl. Fam. 4: 170

BACK. & BAKH.F. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 205

S. MOORE 1925 – In: J. Bot.: Suppl. 65