Symplocos racemosaRoxb.

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WFO wfo-0001141780 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 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 racemosa, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. a T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-02-05 / obs. 112029783
Symplocos racemosa, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. b T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112029794
Symplocos racemosa, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. c T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112029803
Symplocos racemosa, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. d T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112029824
Symplocos racemosa, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. e T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112029833

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
02651808
Filed as
Symplocos racemosa var. racemosa
Det. by
H. P. Nooteboom 1972-01-01
Collected
Collector unknown 1930-02-18
Origin
MM
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Symplocos racemosa is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, East Himalaya, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Is., Thailand, Vietnam, Caroline Is. China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanAssamBangladeshCambodiaEast HimalayaLaosMyanmarNepalThailandVietnam Andaman Is.Nicobar Is.Caroline Is.
Native distribution of Symplocos racemosa, 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
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Nicobar Is. NCB
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Caroline Is. CRL PACIFIC

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 26 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.

  • Dicalix propinquus (Hance) Migo
  • Eugenioides beddomei Kuntze
  • Eugenioides nicobaricum Kuntze
  • Eugenioides racemosum Kuntze
  • Eugenioides rigidum Kuntze
  • Hopea racemosa Dalzell & A.Gibson
  • Lodhra hamiltoniana Miers
  • Lodhra nervosa Miers
  • Lodhra racemosa (Roxb.) Miers
  • Symplocos beddomei C.B.Clarke
  • Symplocos chabdui Brand
  • Symplocos hamiltoniana Wall. ex G.Don
  • Symplocos impressa H.R.Fletcher
  • Symplocos intermedia Brand
  • Symplocos intermedia var. trichantha Hand.-Mazz.
  • Symplocos macrostachya Brand
  • Symplocos macrostachya var. leducii Brand
  • Symplocos nicobarica C.B.Clarke
  • Symplocos orogenes Brand
  • Symplocos palauensis Koidz.
  • Symplocos petelotii Merr.
  • Symplocos propinqua Hance
  • Symplocos reticulata J.Graham ex Brand
  • Symplocos rigida Wall. ex G.Don

and 2 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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol SYRA6. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.