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Botanical Family · Ericales

Symplocaceae

Symplocos Family

9 speciesOrder Ericales4+ well-known plants

The Symplocaceae family (Symplocos Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Ericales. In the SASYA catalogue it spans 9 species. Members range from trees to shrubs. Familiar examples include Buff Hazelwood, Chunga and Large-Leaf Sapphire Berry.

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Representative SYMPLOCACEAE specimen
Representative specimen · Symplocaceae
Key pattern

Alternate, often finely toothed leaves on trees and shrubs; small, fragrant flowers with a short fused corolla and numerous stamens joined at the base into bundles, ripening into a small drupe.

Bark and leaves of several species accumulate aluminium at unusually high concentrations, historically exploited as a natural mordant dye-fixative — the source of one common name, sweetleaf.

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Typical leaf characters

  • ArrangementAlternate
  • TypeVariable
  • MarginVariable
  • VenationVariable

Characters typical of the family — individual species can vary.

Typical flower & fruit

  • Flower symmetryVariable
  • InflorescencePanicle
  • FruitDrupe

Typical of the family — flowering plants only; species can vary.

Notable members

Buff HazelwoodSymplocos cochinchinensisChungaSymplocos cochinchinensis subsp. laurinaLarge-Leaf Sapphire BerrySymplocos macrophyllaLodh Tree, Symplocos BarkSymplocos racemosa

All 9 species in SYMPLOCACEAE

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