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17. Symplocos racemosa Roxb.wfo-0001141780

[Hort. Beng.: 40. 1814, nom. nud.] Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey 2: 539. 1832; H.R.Fletcher in Fl. Siam. En. 2: 388. 1938; Noot., Rev. Symploc.: 271. 1975.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Synonyms & Citations :

Description : Shrub or treelet to 5 m (rarely decidious sec. coll.); terminal budshairy; twigs glabrous or rarely hairy, often soon thickened and then with a spongy grey bark. Leaves ± elliptic, 8–15 by 1.5–5(–8) cm, glabrous (or young leaves appressed-long-hairy), often the upper cuticle very thick and wrinkled when dry; base attenuate, cuneate to rounded, apex rounded to acuminate, blunt; nerves 5–9 pairs, merged into the venation or an intramarginal vein present; reticulation coarse; petiole 7–15 mm. Inflorescence an axillary, sometimes branched, raceme (lowermost flowers always pedicelled) to 10(–17) cm; axis pubescent to woolly or tomentose; bracts 3–4 mm, bracteoles 2–3 mm, both appressed-pubescent and caducous; pedicels (0.5–)1–3(–8) mm. Calyx glabrous, 1.5–3 mm, the lobes 0.25–0.5 mm shorter, rarely minutely appressed-hairy to pubescent. Corolla 5–6 mm. Stamens ca 100. Disk low cylindrical, 5-glandular, shortly to woolly hairy. Ovary glabrous, 1–1.5(–2) mm high; style glabrous, or hairy towards the base. Fruit ellipsoid, 8–11 by 4–10 mm, 2–3-celled; mesocarp fleshy; stone smooth. Seed mostly 1, straight.

Thailand : NORTHERN: Chiang Rai (Mae Kok, Pong), Chiang Mai (Fang, Chiang Dao, Mae Taeng, Doi Suthep, Mae Klang, Doi Inthanon, Bo Luang), Phrae (Huai Pha Kham, Sung Men), Lampang (Chae Hom, Pha Lat), Lamphun (Li), Kamphaeng Phet (Phran Kratai); NORTH-EASTERN: Loei.

Distribution : India (type) Burma, Indochina, China, Hainan, and a variety in Micronesia (Palau).

Ecology : Different kinds of forests, low altitudes to 1,500 m.

Vernacular : Kritsana (กฤษณา), tal um nok (ตะลุ่มนก), muat (เหมือด)(Southwestern); muat la (เหมือดหล้า), muat lao (เหมือดเหล้า), muat lot (เหมือดโลด), muat yai (เหมือดใหญ่), muat khon (เหมือดคน), muat som (เหมือดส้ม), muat noi (เหมือดน้อย)(Eastern); muat dok (เหมือดดอก), muat rai (เหมือดไร่), muat hom (เหมือดหอม)(Northern, Northeastern); muat kaeo (เหมือดแก้ว), muat khao (เหมือดข้าว), som mo tia (ส้มหมอเตี้ย)(Northeastern); muat yom mai (เหมือดย้อมไหม)(Southeastern).