Symplocos adenophylla Wall. ex G. Don

Trees 4--10 m tall. Young branchlets, buds, inflorescences, bracts, and calyces reddish brown powdery puberulent. Branchlets reddish brown. Petiole 5--10 mm, margin glandular punctate; leaf blade narrowly elliptic, elliptic, or narrowly ovate, 6--11 X 1.8--3 cm, thickly papery, powdery but soon glabrescent, base cuneate, margin subentire to sinuous-dentate and with elliptic punctate glands, apex caudate-acuminate, lateral veins 4--12 pairs. Racemes or spikes, 2--6 cm, 1--3-branched, axis tomentellous-puberulent when young; bracts and bractlets persistent, triangular-ovate, 1--1.5 mm. Ovary 1--2 mm. Calyx 0.5--1 mm; lobes semi-orbicular, 0.3--0.5 mm. Corolla ca. 3 mm. Stamens 30--35. Disc annular, glabrous. Drupes ellipsoid-cylindric, 6--12 X 3--5 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Aug.

Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan, (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam].

Mixed forests; 200--800 m.

Dicalix punctomarginatus (A. Chevalier ex Guillaumin) Migo; Symplocos iteophylla Miquel; S. maclurei Merrill; S. punctomarginata A. Chevalier ex Guillaumin; S. stewardii Sleumer.

Symplocos adenophylla grows as a shrub or tree up to 30 metres (100 ft) tall, with a trunk diameter of up to 40 centimetres (16 in). Bark is grey to dark brown or black. Its fragrant flowers feature a white to yellow corolla. Fruit is blue when ripe. Habitat is forests from sea-level to 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) altitude. S. adenophylla is found in China, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia.