Vasilis Teodoridis:
3. Symplocos wikstroemiifolia Hayata; Icon. Pl. Formos. 5: 119. 1915.
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Bobua wikstroemiifolia (Hayata) Kanehira & Sasaki; Dicalix wikstroemiifolius (Hayata) Migo; Symplocos micro-tricha Handel-Mazzetti.
Shrubs or trees. Young branchlets; petioles; and leaf blades abaxially with minute appressed hairs. Leaves only toward end of twigs; petiole 3–10 mm; leaf blade narrowly elliptic; elliptic; narrowly obovate; or obovate; 4–12 x 1.5–4 cm; papery to thin leathery; base narrowly cuneate; margin entire or sinuolate-dentate; apex mucronate-acuminate; acute; or obtuse; midvein adaxially flattened to slightly prominent; lateral veins 6–10 per side. Spikes 1–2 cm; with some branches; axis pubescent; bracts very soon deciduous; oblong to orbicular; 1.2–2 mm; pubescent; margin ciliate; bractlets very soon deciduous; pubescent. Flowers staminate or bisex-ual; probably androdioecious. Ovary ca. 0.5 mm in staminate flowers and 1–1.5 mm in bisexual flowers; glabrous or very fine appressed short hairy. Calyx lobes broadly ovate to nearly semi-orbicular; ca. 1 mm; margin ciliate; outer lobes sometimes appressed fine pubescent. Corolla 2–3 mm. Sta-mens 15–20 in staminate flowers; 5 and alternate with petals in bisexual flowers. Disc annular; glabrous or sparsely pilose. Style ca. 2 mm; glabrous; aborted in staminate flowers. Drupe ovoid; 1–1.2 cm x 6–8 mm; apex with persistent erect calyx lobes; endocarp with smooth surface. Seed curved; embryo curved. Fl. Mar; fr. Oct.
Mixed forests; 900–2500 m. Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hainan; Hunan; Taiwan; Yunnan; Zhejiang [Malaysia; Vietnam].