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9. Symplocos fasciculata Zoll.wfo-0000491454

Syst. Verz.: 136. 1854; Noot., Rev. Symploc.: 191. t. 13. 1975.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Description : Shrub, or less often a tree to 22 m high and 50 cm diam; twigs sparsely pilose, puberulous, or appressed-pubescent, glabrescent, often zig-zag; terminal buds hairy. Leaves alternately or (on the leaders) spirally arranged, glabrous above, sparsely finely adpressed-hairy beneath, rarely patently hirsute, especially on midrib and nerves and towards the margin, (narrowly) elliptic or sometimes ovate, acuminate to caudate with acute to rounded base, 5–13(–18) by 2–4.5(–6) cm; acumen 5–20 mm; margin entire or glandular, but glands hot closely spaced; nerves (4–)6–8(–11) pairs, meeting in a looped intramarginal vein; reticulation coarse; petiole 2–8 mm. Flowers in a fascicle of reduced, often branched, racemes to 2.5 cm long; bracts and bracteoles persistent, minute (rarely to 3 mm), like the axis pubescent; often several bracts present, indicating origin from a more branched inflorescence; pedicels 1–5 mm, pubescent. Calyx divided into (4–)5(–6) broadly ovoid, rounded, appressed-pubescent or glabrous lobes, ca 1 mm long but sometimes the lobes different in size, often some of the lobes petaloid. Corolla glabrous or more often with minute hairs towards the outer base, rarely some hairs on the back also, 2–4.5 mm. Stamens 12–35. Disk glabrous to more or less pilose, low annular. Ovary appressed-hairy, ca 1 mm high; style hairy, especially towards the thickened base, rarely glabrous, 2–3.5 mm. Fruit broadly or narrowly ampulliform, often curved, the belly globose or ovoid, the neck broadly conical, 5–7 by 3–5 mm; mesocarp thin, rather fleshy, or papyraceous; stone ruminate with ca 10 shallow grooves or not ruminate. Seed 1 much lobed with slightly curved embryo.

Thailand : PENINSULAR: Pattani, Trang.

Distribution : Malesia (Java – type) except Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas, New Guinea.

Ecology : In secondary and primary forests, in thickets, 0–2,200 m alt.