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Symplocaceae FAMILY

Symplocos polyandra

Symplocos polyandra

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitEvergreen Tree
Growth—

The plant is often found in the wild in Kerangas forest - a type of moist, heath forest found on acidic, sandy soils that are low in nutrients, especially nitrogen[PFAF].

Propagation

Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Symplocos+polyandra>

Pollinators

Bees. Insects

References

  1. [1]Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak Vols 1 - 6 — Soepadmo E.; Saw L.G.; Chung R.C.K. (Editors) · Forest Research Institute Malaysia; Kuala Lumpur. · 2002 · ISBN 983-2181-27-5 ↩︎A flora of the woody plants of Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo, often giving details of plant uses.
  2. [2]Flora Malesiana Series 1 — Various · Nationaal Herbarium Nederiand, Universiteit Leiden branch · http://www.archive.org ↩︎A massive treatment of the plants of the Malaysian Archipelago. Much of it has been made available to download from the Internet
  3. [3]Symplocos laurina: an unexplored important medicinal plant of Shola forest system — Banu S. & Kashyap K. · 2013 · ISBN 2249-4340 ↩︎
  4. [4]Revision of the Symplocaceae of the Old World; New Caledonia excepted. — Nooteboom H.P. · Universitaire Pers Leiden, Netherlands · 1975 · ISBN 90-6021-248-7 ↩︎
  5. [5]Taxonomic revision of Phyllanthus L. (Phyllanthaceae) in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands II: subgenera Anisonemoid — Ralimanana H. & Hoffmann P. · 2014 · http:// http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/a2014n2a9 ↩︎
  6. [PFAF]Plants for a Future — pfaf.org ↩︎