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9. Viburnum sambucinum Reinw. ex Blumewfo-0000422778

Bijdr. 656. 1825; C.B.Clarke in Hook.f. Fl. Brit. India 3: 5. 1880; Danguy, Fl. Indo-Chine [P.H.Lecomte et al.] 3: 11. 1922; Craib, Fl. Siam. 2: 3. 1932; Kern, Reinwardtia 1: 129. 1951; Kern & Steenis, Fl. Males. Ser I, Spermat. 4: 186. 1951; Fukuoka, Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 22: 173. 1967.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Description : Evergreen tree up to 12 m tall; young branches densely clad with brownish stellate hairs. Leaves coriaceous or thinly coriaceous, entire, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 6–22 by 2–8.5 cm, acuminate to attenuate-acuminate at apex, cuneate to obtuse at base, lateral nerves 4–7, veins prominent beneath, upper surface shining, glabrous except on hairy veins, lower surface with sparse pilose and stellate hairs. Petiole 1–5 cm long. Inflorescence 6–10 cm in diam. when blooming, densely with stellate hairs; peduncle 1–5 cm long; bracts linear, densely hairy. Flowers sessile. Calyx 1.5–2 mm in diam., tube sparsely hairy, lobes ovate to triangular-ovate, obtuse at apex, glabrous except for somewhat ciliate margins. Corolla campanulate, 3–4 mm in diam., glabrous, tube 1–1.5 mm long, lobes ovate, obtuse or acute at apex, 1–1.2 mm long. Filaments 6–8 mm long, shortly pedicellate. Stone ovate-oblong, acuminate at apex, slightly cordate at base, 8–12 by 6–8 mm, with three ventral and two dorsal grooves, lateral two often obscure, laterally rugose on surface.

Thailand : EASTERN: Nakhon Nayok (Khao Yai); SOUTH-EASTERN: Rayong, Chanthaburi (Khao Soi Dao), Trat (Khao Kuap); PENINSULAR: Nakhon Si Thammarat (Khao Luang).

Distribution : Cambodia, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Java (type), Lesser Sunda Islands, Celebes and the Moluccas.

Ecology : In evergreen forests, at 600–1,000 m alt.

Vernacular : Un (อูน), un pa (อูนป่า)(Northern); pho-ben-khli (พอเบนคลี้)(Karen- Chiang Mai).