Symplocos thwaitesii

Shrub or tree to 20 m high. Branchlets and terminal buds glabrous. Leaves glabrous, oblanceolate to narrow-elliptic, leathery, 8–17 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, apex acuminate to acute, base cuneate, margin usually dentate, occasionally entire, petiole 0.5–2 cm long, yellow. Inflorescence axillary, basally branched, spikes, panicles or racemes, 5–15 cm long, bracts caducous, 1.5–2 mm long, pedicels 0.8 mm long; sepals 1.5–2 mm long; petals white, 6–7 mm long; stamens c. 100, white, as long as the petals; disk ring-like or 5-lobed. Fruit ovoid to flask-shaped, purple to black, 5–15 mm long, 4–8 mm wide. Flowers Sep.–Dec.