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. Plants in this family are shrubs and trees with white or yellow flowers. The oldest fossils of the genus date to the lower Eocene of Europe and North America, with the genus being present in Europe as late as the Pliocene. Fossil seeds of †Symplocos granulosa are frequent in sediment rock layers of the Late Oligocene to the Late Miocene of Denmark, Germany, Austria and Poland. The fossil seeds are very similar to the seeds of the extan southern Chinese species Symplocos glandulifera and Symplocos sulcata. Fossil seeds of †Symplocos paucicostata are known from the Middle Pliocene sediment rock layers in Reuver, the Netherlands and from the Late Pliocene sediment rock layers in northern Italy. The fossil seeds are very similar to the seeds of the extant East Asian species Symplocos paniculata.
Selected species
Symplocos adenophyllaSymplocos ampulliformis — Northeast Queensland, AustraliaSymplocos anamallayanaSymplocos anomalaSymplocos austromexicana — deciduous shrub up to 2m; narrow endemic, Oaxaca, MexicoSymplocos badiaSymplocos baehniiSymplocos barberiSymplocos bauerlenii — shrub or small tree up to 7m; eastern AustraliaSymplocos blancaeSymplocos bractealisSymplocos breedloveiSymplocos calycodactylosSymplocos candelabrum — tree up to 13m; Lord Howe IslandSymplocos canescensSymplocos carmencitaeSymplocos chloroleucaSymplocos clethrifoliaSymplocos citreaSymplocos coccineaSymplocos cochinchinensisSymplocos cordifolia — Sri LankaSymplocos coreana — Korean sweetleaf, deciduous shrub up to 5m; Japan, KoreaSymplocos coronata — Sri LankaSymplocos costaricana – Central AmericaSymplocos costataSymplocos crassiramifera — Northeast Queensland, AustraliaSymplocos cuneata — Sri LankaSymplocos cyanocarpa — Northeast Queensland, AustraliaSymplocos ecuadorica – EcuadorSymplocos foliosa - Endemic to the Western Ghats of IndiaSymplocos fuscataSymplocos glauca — evergreen tree up to 15m; Japan, Taiwan, China, IndochinaSymplocos graniticola — Northeast Queensland, AustraliaSymplocos hayesii — Northeast Queensland, AustraliaSymplocos henscheliiSymplocos hispidulaSymplocos hylandii — Northeast Queensland, AustraliaSymplocos junghuhnii- †Symplocos kowalewskii Baltic amber, EoceneSymplocos lancifolia — evergreen tree up to 5m; JapanSymplocos longipesSymplocos lucida — China, Japan, Taiwan, South Asia, MalesiaSymplocos lugubrisSymplocos meziiSymplocos myrtacea — evergreen tree up to 10m; JapanSymplocos nairiiSymplocos nicolsonii — IndiaSymplocos niveaSymplocos octopetalaSymplocos oligandraSymplocos paniculata — — deciduous shrub up to 8m; Japan, South Korea; popular as an ornamental plantSymplocos paucistaminea — Northeast Queensland, AustraliaSymplocos pendulaSymplocos peruvianaSymplocos pluribracteataSymplocos prunifolia — evergreen tree]up to 10m; Japan, KoreaSymplocos pulchra — Sri LankaSymplocos pyrifloraSymplocos racemosa — China, South AsiaSymplocos rimbachiiSymplocos shilanensisSymplocos sousaeSymplocos stawellii — shrub or small tree up to 30m; eastern AustraliaSymplocos subandinaSymplocos subintegra ChatterjeeSymplocos tacanensisSymplocos tanakae — evergreen tree; JapanSymplocos theophrastaefolia — evergreen tree up to 15m; Japan, Taiwan, ChinaSymplocos thwaitesii — shrub or small tree up to 17m; eastern AustraliaSymplocos tinctoria — — deciduous or evergreen shrub or tree up to 6m; United StatesSymplocos trichocladaSymplocos truncataSymplocos tubuliferaSymplocos verrucisurcula
- ''Symplocos versicolor''