Symplocos polyandra
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Description
Tree up to 30 m, 50 cm Ø, rarely a shrub.
Bark dark, cracked.
Leaves crowded towards the end of the twigs, rounded or cuneate-obtuse at the apex, with cuneate, attenuate base and entire, revolute margin, glabrous (except in innovations and then puberulous), narrowly elliptic to obovate, 9-22 by 2½-7(-9) cm;
Stamens 50 to more than 100.
Ovary with same indument as calyx, c. 2 mm high.
Fruit ellipsoid, c. 10 by 7 mm in vivo;
Seed 1 in each cell with straight embryo.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Philippines (Philippines present), Baleh Angien present, Banka present, Billiton present, Karimata present, Makassar present, SW. Celebes present, St. Barbe present
Malesia: Borneo and adjacent islands (Natuna, Banka, Billiton, Karimata, St. Barbe), Philippines (throughout), and SW. Celebes (Makassar: Baleh Angien, once).
Citation
NOOT. 1975 – In: Leid. Bot. Ser.: 264
Merr. 1918: Sp. Blanc.: 304
BLANCO 1879: Fl. Filip., ed. 3: 126
STEEN. 1932: p. 170. – In: Bull. Bot. Gard. Btzg: f. 5
BRAND 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 301
VIDAL 1885: Phan. Cuming. Philip.: 124
ROLFE 1886: Rev. Pl. Vasc. Filip.: 178
BRAND 1901 – In: Pfl. R. Heft: 55
HALL.F. 1921 – In: Beih. Bot. Centralbl.: 94