Symplocos anomala Brand

Species

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Characteristics

Shrubs or small trees. Young branchlets tomentellous-tomentose to brown pubescent, rarely very soon glabrescent but then still hairy directly under terminal bud. Petiole 2--7 mm; leaf blade narrowly elliptic, elliptic, or ovate, 2--7(--11) X 1.2--3 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially glabrous or rarely young leaves finely appressed hairy, adaxially brownish, olive, or sometimes yellowish green glossy, base attenuate-cuneate, margin entire or finely glandular dentate, apex acuminate, midvein and lateral veins adaxially prominent, lateral veins 5--11 pairs. Racemes 0.8--1.5(--3.5) cm, sometimes 1--3-branched from base, axis tomentose to appressed pubescent; bracts and bractlets persistent, often ovate, 1--2 mm and 0.8--1.5 mm respectively, with same indument. Pedicel 2--5 mm. Ovary ca. 1 mm, tomentose to finely appressed pubescent, rarely glabrous. Calyx 1--2.5 mm, tomentose to finely appressed pubescent, rarely glabrous; lobes semi-elliptic to semi-orbicular, 0.5--2 mm, margin ciliate. Corolla 4--6 mm. Stamens (20--)50--100 or more. Disc annular, villous, often 5-glandular. Style 4--7 mm, glabrous or hairy towards base. Drupes brown, oblong-globose, 7--10 X ca. 6 mm, apex with persistent erect calyx lobes. Fl. and fr. Apr-Dec.
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Shrub or tree to 21 m, 40 cm ø. Young twigs tomentellous to tomentose or appressedly pubescent, glabrescent. 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, 2½-12 by 1¼-3 cm; midrib promi-nent above 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 appressedly pubescent. Bracts 1-2 mm, bracteoles ¼-1½ mm, both persistent, with same indument as axis. Pedicels 2-5 mm. Calyx lobes rounded, ciliolate ½-2 mm. Corolla 4—6 mm. Stamens 50 to more than 100. Disk tomentose or shortly soft hairy. Ovary tomentose to (finely) appressedly pubescent, c. ½-l½ mm high; style glabrous or hairy towards the base, 4-7 mm. Fruit 3-celled, ellipsoid, violet, almost black, c. 10 by 6 mm in Malaya, 10-13 by 6-8 mm in Borneo. Seed 1 in each cell, straight with straight embryo.
A shrub or small tree. It can grow 20 m tall. Young branches have a brown hairy covering. The leaves are narrowly oval and 2-7 cm long by 1-3 cm wide. The fruit are fleshy and brown. They are oval and 7-10 mm long by 6 mm wide.
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Mixed evergreen montane forest, also on ridges and along streamsides, 700-2200 m (in continental Asia to 3000 m), but also found on podsolized sands at very low altitude, 20-50 m, in Banka. Fl. June-Oct., fr. Jan.-Dec.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows in mixed forests between 400-3,000 m above sea level in southern China. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-12

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Distribution

Symplocos anomala world distribution map, present in Argentina, China, Indonesia, India, Japan, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, and Viet Nam

Conservation status

Symplocos anomala threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:826998-1
WFO ID wfo-0001141700
COL ID 53RDZ
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Synonyms

Symplocos chevalieri Dicalix anomalus Dicalix fusonii Bobua anomala Symplocos anomala Symplocos alata Symplocos argentea Symplocos dielsii Symplocos esquirolii Symplocos doii Symplocos fusonii Symplocos morrisonicola Symplocos kiraishiensis Bobua doii Bobua morrisonicola Symplocos nagensis Symplocos concolor Symplocos anomala var. fusonii Symplocos anomala var. nitida Symplocos anomala var. anomala Symplocos morrisonicola var. matudae