Symplocos tricoccata Noot.

Shrub 3 m to small tree to 10 m high, 15 cm Ø. Twigs glabrous. Leaves glabrous, yellowish or olive-grey or water-green, sometimes glossy beneath, acuminate, with acute base and dentate to denticulate margin, ± elliptic, 7-29 by 4-9½ cm; nerves 5-10 pairs, meeting in an intramarginal vein; petiole 5-15 mm. Flowers in a fascicle or very short spike; axis glabrous, to 5 mm long. Bracts and bracteoles soon caducous, c. 1½ mm. Pedicel 0-1 mm. Calyx glabrous or with some hairs, c. 2 mm long, the lobes 1-1¾ mm. Corolla 5-8 mm. Stamens 40 to more than 100. Disk 5-glandular, the conical style base with some hairs to softly short-pilose. Ovary glabrous, c. 2 mm high; style glabrous to 7 mm. Fruit narrowly obliquely ellipsoid, 12-16 by 4-6 mm, ± triangular in CS, 3-celled, each cell circular in CS; stone 3-lobed in CS, endocarp thin, woody. Seed cylindrical, with straight embryo.

Lowland and montane primary rainforest, near streams, on hillsides, in low undulating flat country, on rocky soil, also in Dipterocarp forest, 30-2100 m. Fl. Aug.-Nov., Febr.; fr. Febr.-June, Sept. Fruits often recorded to be whitish, through purple to blue when ripe.

Uses. In Sarawak the wood is said to be used for knife handles.

Can be grown by seedlings.