Symplocos
Symplocos is a genus of flowering plants in the order Ericales. It contains about 300 species distributed in Asia and the Americas. Many species grow in humid tropical regions. This is sometimes considered to be the only genus in family Symplocaceae.[1] Plants in this family are shrubs and trees with white or yellow flowers.[2]
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| Plate by Philipp Franz von Siebold and Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Symplocaceae |
| Genus: | Symplocos Jacq. |
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Selected species
- Symplocos adenophylla
- Symplocos ampulliformis — NE. Qld, Australia
- Symplocos anamallayana
- Symplocos anomala
- Symplocos austromexicana — deciduous shrub up to 2m; narrow endemic, Oaxaca, Mexico
- Symplocos badia
- Symplocos baehnii
- Symplocos barberi
- Symplocos bauerlenii — shrub or small tree up to 7m; eastern Australia
- Symplocos blancae
- Symplocos bractealis
- Symplocos breedlovei
- Symplocos calycodactylos
- Symplocos candelabrum — tree up to 13m; Lord Howe Island
- Symplocos canescens
- Symplocos carmencitae
- Symplocos chloroleuca
- Symplocos clethrifolia
- Symplocos citrea
- Symplocos coccinea
- Symplocos cochinchinensis
- var. cochinchinensis
- var. gittonsii — NE. Qld, Australia
- var. glaberrima — NE. Qld, Australia
- var. pilosiuscula — NE. Qld, Australia
- Symplocos cordifolia — Sri Lanka
- Symplocos coreana — Korean sweetleaf,[3] deciduous shrub up to 5m; Japan, Korea
- Symplocos coronata — Sri Lanka
- Symplocos costata
- Symplocos crassiramifera — NE. Qld, Australia
- Symplocos cuneata — Sri Lanka
- Symplocos cyanocarpa — NE. Qld, Australia
- Symplocos fuscata
- Symplocos glauca — evergreen tree up to 15m; Japan, Taiwan, China, Indochina
- Symplocos globosa
- Symplocos graniticola — NE. Qld, Australia
- Symplocos hayesii — NE. Qld, Australia
- Symplocos henschelii
- Symplocos hispidula
- Symplocos hylandii — NE. Qld, Australia
- Symplocos junghuhnii
- Symplocos lancifolia — evergreen tree up to 5m; Japan
- Symplocos longipes
- Symplocos lucida — China, Japan, Taiwan, South Asia, Malesia
- Symplocos lugubris
- Symplocos mezii
- Symplocos molinae
- Symplocos myrtacea — evergreen tree up to 10m; Japan
- Symplocos nairii
- Symplocos nivea
- Symplocos octopetala
- Symplocos oligandra
- Symplocos paniculata — (sapphireberry) — deciduous shrub up to 8m; Japan, South Korea; popular as an ornamental plant
- Symplocos paucistaminea — NE. Qld, Australia
- Symplocos pendula
- Symplocos peruviana
- Symplocos pluribracteata
- Symplocos prunifolia — evergreen tree up to 10m; Japan, Korea
- Symplocos pulchra — Sri Lanka
- Symplocos pyriflora
- Symplocos racemosa — China, South Asia
- Symplocos rimbachii
- Symplocos shilanensis
- Symplocos sousae
- Symplocos stawellii — shrub or small tree up to 30m; eastern Australia
- var. montana — NE. Qld, Australia
- var. stawellii — Australia
- Symplocos subandina
- Symplocos subintegra Chatterjee
- Symplocos tacanensis
- Symplocos tanakae — evergreen tree; Japan
- Symplocos theophrastaefolia — evergreen tree up to 15m; Japan, Taiwan, China
- Symplocos thwaitesii — shrub or small tree up to 17m; eastern Australia
- Symplocos tinctoria — (sweetleaf, horse-sugar, yellowwood) — deciduous or evergreen shrub or tree up to 6m; United States
- Symplocos trichoclada
- Symplocos truncata
- Symplocos tubulifera
- Symplocos verrucisurcula
- Symplocos versicolor
References
- Wang, Y.; Fritsch, P.W.; Shi, S.; Almeda, F.; Cruz, B.C.; Kelly, L.M. (2004). "Phylogeny and infrageneric classification of Symplocos (Symplocaceae) inferred from DNA sequence data". American Journal of Botany. 91 (11): 1901–14. doi:10.3732/ajb.91.11.1901. PMID 21652336.
- Symplocaceae. Flora of China.
- English Names for Korean Native Plants (PDF). Pocheon: Korea National Arboretum. 2015. p. 650. ISBN 978-89-97450-98-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 24 December 2016 – via Korea Forest Service.
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