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3. Symplocos anomala Brandwfo-0001141700

Bot. Jahrb. 29: 259. 1900; Noot., Rev. Symploc.: 126, t. la–f. 1975.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Description : Shrub or tree to 21 m; young twigs tomentellous to tomentose orappressed pubescent, glabrescent; terminal buds hairy. Leaves glabrous, brownish or olive to yellowish green, glossy above, elliptic, acuminate with cuneate-attenuate base and more or less revolute finely glandular dentate to nearly entire margin, 2.5–12 by 1.2–3 cm; acumen 2–20 mm; midrib above prominent or flat, rarely flat and sunken; nerves 5–11 pairs, meeting in a looped intramarginal vein; petiole 2–7 mm. Raceme to 2 cm long, axis tomentose to appressed-pubescent; bracts 1–2 mm; bracteoles 0.25–1.5 mm, both persistent, with same indumentum as on axis; pedicels 2–5 mm. Calyx lobes rounded, ciliolate, 0.5–2 mm. Corolla 4–6 mm. Stamens 50 to more than 100. Disk tomentose or shortly soft-hairy. Ovary tomentose to (finely) appressed-pubescent, ca 0.5–1.5 mm high; style glabrous or hairy towards the base, 4–7 mm. Fruit 3-celled, ellipsoid, ca 10 by 6 mm; mesocarp fleshy, thin, stone faintly ribbed. Seed 1 in each cell, straight, with straight embryo.

Thailand : SOUTH-WESTERN: Kanchanaburi (Khao Yai); PENINSULAR: Surat (Ban Krut), Phangnga (Takua Pa).

Distribution : Burma, Indochina, China (type), Japan, Formosa, Malaya, Sumatra, Banka, Borneo.

Ecology : Tropical evergreen forests. In continental Asia from 150–3,000 m alt., in Malesia from 100–2,200 m alt., but in Banka found at 20 m alt.