Symplocos lucida
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Description
Shrub or tree to 20 m, 25 cm Ø.
Leaves coriaceous, glabrous (sometimes quite thin), acute or obtuse with cuneate base and entire or glandular dentate re volute margin, ± elliptic, 5-12 by 2-4½ cm;
Flowers in a basally branched short dense raceme or condensed spike of 1½-4 cm;
Stamens 10-70.
Ovary glabrous, ½-2 mm high;
Fruit ellipsoid (to rarely nearly orbicular), 1-3-celled, 5-18 by 4—15 mm, the wider ones with 2 seeds.
Seeds usually U-shaped with U-shaped embryo, in the 3-celled fruits the seeds abortive or (at most) V-shaped;
Distribution
Asia-Temperate: China Southeast (Hong Kong present); Hainan (Hainan present), Asia-Tropical: Borneo absent; Maluku (Maluku absent); New Guinea absent, Continental SE.-E. Asia present, Japan present, N. Burma present, N. India present, N. Thailand present, Ryu Kyu Is present, Southern America: Argentina Northeast (Formosa present)
Continental SE.-E. Asia (N. India, N. Burma, N. Thailand, Indo-China, China, Hong Kong, Hainan, Japan, Ryu Kyu Is., Formosa); throughout Malesia, except Borneo, the Moluccas, and New Guinea.
Citation
K. & V. 1900 – In: Bijdr.: 155
NOOT. 1975: p. 217. – In: Leid. Bot. Ser.: with full synonymy.
HALL.f. 1912 – In: Med. Rijksherb.: 40
BRAND 1901 – In: Pfl. R. Heft: 66
Ridl. 1923 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 302
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 300
BACK. & BAKH. f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 205
OHWI 1965: Fl. Jap.: 727
BRAND 1901 – In: Pfl. R. Heft: 65
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 300