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2. Symplocos adenophylla G.Donwfo-0001141817

Gen.Syst. 4: 3. 1837; H.R.Fletcher in Fl. Siam En. 2: 384. 1938; Noot., Rev. Symploc.: 121. 1975.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Description : Shrub or tree to 20 m, 50 cm diam; young twigs puberulous or rarelytomentellous, glabrescent; terminal buds hairy. Leaves chartaceous to coriaceous, often dark brown when dry, pulverulent beneath or on both faces, soon glabrescent, elliptic, acuminate, with cuneate base and recurved to revolute margin with many pellucid glands, 4.5–16 by 1.2–4.7 cm, acumen 7–35 mm; nerves 4–12 pairs, meeting in a looped intramarginal vein; reticulation often fine; petiole 6–12 mm. Flowers in a spike, raceme or panicle to 6 cm; indumentum of axis as of twigs; bracts and bracteoles with same indumentum, persistent in fruit, 0.5–1 mm; pedicels mostly under older flowers, to 3 mm. Calyx nearly entirely divided into 0.5–1 mm long lobes. Corolla 2–5 mm. Stamens (20–)25–50. Disk glabrous or rarely hairy. Ovary with same indumentum as that of twigs, 1–2 mm high; style glabrous or with some hairs towards the base, 2–4 mm. Fruit ellipsoid to cylindrical, sometimes with ca 6 ridges when dry, soon glabrescent, crowned by the incurved calyx lobes, with only one developed cell, 8–10(–11) by 3–5(–6) mm; mesocarp thin, coriaceous. Seed 1, with straight embryo.

Thailand : PENINSULAR: Nakhon Si Thammarat (Tha Samet, Khao Luang), Ranong (Khao Phota Luang Kaeo), Phangnga (Khao Katha Khwam), Krabi (Ko Pu), Trang (Khao Phlu), Satun (Thung Wa).

Distribution : China, Indochina, Malesia (Penang – type).

Ecology : In tropical evergreen forests. In Thailand 500–1,300 m alt.