Symplocos acuminata(Blume) Miq.

WFO wfo-0000492195 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Symplocos acuminata, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. a Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2016-11-15 / obs. 141891814
Symplocos acuminata, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 141891823
Symplocos acuminata, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 141891832

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Symplocos acuminata is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Tibet, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTaiwanTibetAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosMalayaMyanmarSri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnam Nansei-shotoAndaman Is.
Native distribution of Symplocos acuminata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 62 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Bobua atroviridis Miers
  • Bobua divaricativena (Hayata) Kaneh. & Sasaki
  • Bobua konishii (Hayata) Kaneh. & Sasaki
  • Bobua laurina (Retz.) DC.
  • Bobua oligostachya Miers
  • Decadia aluminosa Lour.
  • Dicalix acuminatus Blume
  • Dicalix aluminosus Blume
  • Dicalix bodinieri (Brand) Migo
  • Dicalix laurinus (Retz.) Migo
  • Dicalix schaefferae (Merr.) Migo
  • Dicalix spicatus Blume
  • Dicalix terminalis (Brand) Migo
  • Dicalix theophrastifolius (Siebold & Zucc.) Migo
  • Drupatris cochinchinensis Lour.
  • Eugenioides acuminatum Kuntze
  • Eugenioides laurinum Kuntze
  • Eugenioides ribes Kuntze
  • Eugenioides spicatum Kuntze
  • Eurya cavaleriei H.Lév.
  • Hopea spicata Dalzell & A.Gibson
  • Lodhra attenuata Miers
  • Lodhra lohu (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) Miers
  • Lodhra polycarpa (Wall. ex G.Don) Miers

and 38 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.