Symplocos
| Symplocos | |
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| Plate by Philipp Franz von Siebold and Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Symplocaceae |
| Genus: | Symplocos Jacq. |
| Species | |
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Symplocos is a genus of flowering plants in the order Ericales, containing about 250 species native to Asia, Australia and the Americas.
Symplocos species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including engrailed moths.
Selected species
- Symplocos adenophylla
- Symplocos ampulliformis – NE. Qld, Australia
- Symplocos anamallayana
- Symplocos anomala
- Symplocos austromexicana - deciduous shrub up to 2m; narrow endemic, Oaxaca, Mexico
- Symplocos badia
- Symplocos baehnii
- Symplocos barberi
- Symplocos bauerlenii - shrub or small tree up to 7m; eastern Australia
- Symplocos blancae
- Symplocos bractealis
- Symplocos breedlovei
- Symplocos calycodactylos
- Symplocos candelabrum - tree up to 13m; Lord Howe Island
- Symplocos canescens
- Symplocos carmencitae
- Symplocos chloroleuca
- Symplocos clethrifolia
- Symplocos coccinea
- Symplocos cochinchinensis
- var. cochinchinensis
- var. gittonsii – NE. Qld, Australia
- var. glaberrima – NE. Qld, Australia
- var. pilosiuscula – NE. Qld, Australia
- Symplocos cordifolia - Sri Lanka
- Symplocos coreana - deciduous shrub up to 5m; Japan, Korea
- Symplocos coronata - Sri Lanka
- Symplocos costata
- Symplocos crassiramifera – NE. Qld, Australia
- Symplocos cuneata - Sri Lanka
- Symplocos cyanocarpa – NE. Qld, Australia
- Symplocos glauca - evergreen tree up to 15m; Japan, Taiwan, China, Indochina
- Symplocos globosa
- Symplocos graniticola – NE. Qld, Australia
- Symplocos hayesii – NE. Qld, Australia
- Symplocos henschelii
- Symplocos hispidula
- Symplocos hylandii – NE. Qld, Australia
- Symplocos lancifolia - evergreen tree up to 5m; Japan
- Symplocos longipes
- Symplocos lucida - China, Japan, Taiwan, South Asia, Malesia
- Symplocos lugubris
- Symplocos mezii
- Symplocos molinae
- Symplocos myrtacea - evergreen tree up to 10m; Japan
- Symplocos paniculata (sapphireberry) - deciduous shrub up to 8m; Japan, South Korea; popular as an ornamental plant
- Symplocos paucistaminea – NE. Qld, Australia
- Symplocos pendula
- Symplocos peruviana
- Symplocos pluribracteata
- Symplocos prunifolia - evergreen tree up to 10m; Japan, Korea
- Symplocos pulchra - Sri Lanka
- Symplocos pyriflora
- Symplocos racemosa - China, South Asia
- Symplocos rimbachii
- Symplocos shilanensis
- Symplocos sousae
- Symplocos stawellii - shrub or small tree up to 30m; eastern Australia
- var. montana – NE. Qld, Australia
- var. stawellii – Australia
- Symplocos tacanensis
- Symplocos tanakae - evergreen tree; Japan
- Symplocos theophrastaefolia - evergreen tree up to 15m; Japan, Taiwan, China
- Symplocos thwaitesii - shrub or small tree up to 17m; eastern Australia
- Symplocos tinctoria (Sweetleaf, Horse-sugar, Yellowwood) - deciduous or evergreen shrub or tree up to 6m; United States
- Symplocos trichoclada
- Symplocos truncata
- Symplocos tubulifera