Meliosma simplicifolia
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Description
Evergreen shrub or tree, up to 20 m.
Leaves elliptic or obovate to lanceolate, 3-50 by 1-18 cm, base cuneate, apex acute to acuminate, rarely caudate or rounded, entire to spinously dentate, sometimes with hairy domatia;
Sepals (4) 5, sometimes by addition of empty bracts seemingly more, up to 11(-13), (round-)ovate, equal or usually more or less unequal, the inner ones 0.7-2 mm, the outer one(s) smaller, often minute.
Panicles terminal, very rarely axillary, erect, lax to rather dense, widely to narrowly pyramidal, (4-)10-50(-60) cm, usually profusely branched up to the 2nd-4th order, bearing numerous solitary to crowded or glomerulate flowers which are usually spicately arranged;
Ovary 0.5-0.7(-l) mm.
Distribution
Asia-Temperate: Taiwan (Taiwan present), Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Ceylon present, Continental SE. Asia present, S. Japan present
Continental SE. Asia (from Ceylon to China, Taiwan and S. Japan); in Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Java, and Lesser Sunda Islands. .