Symplocos verticillifolia
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Description
Treelet 7-9 m, 20 cm Ø.
Leaves in whorls of 4 or 5, sparsely long-pilose beneath, acuminate with cuneate base and glandular denticulate margin, obovate, 6½-11 by 2¼ -5 cm;
Flowers in a reduced axillary fascicle-like spike;
Stamens 70 to more than 100.
Ovary glabrous.
Fruit ellipsoid to cylindrical, immature whitish, 10-12 by c. 5 mm;
Seed mostly 1, straight with straight embryo.