Meliosma simplicifolia
(Roxb.) Walp., Rep. Bot. Syst. 1: 103. 1842.
Millingtonia simplifolia Roxb., Pl. Corom. 3: 50, t. 254. 1820. Millingtonia
pungens Wallich ex Wight &, Arn. in Edinb. New Phil. J. 15. 178. 1833.
Meliosma yunnanensis Franchet in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 33. 465. 1886. Meliosma
thomsonii King ex Brandis, Indian trees 195. 1906.
Evergreen trees, up to 20 m tall. Leaves elliptic to lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate to obovate-oblong, 3 - 50 x 1 - 18 cm, entire or dentate, glabrous or
pubescent, sometimes with domana; nerves 7 - 25 pairs. Panicles terminal, very
rarely axillary, usually profusely branched, sparsely pubescent to densely
tomentose, many-flowered. Flowers crowded, sessile. Sepals 4 - 5; empty bracts
0.6(-8), ovate, more or less unequal; inner ones 0.8 - 2 mm; outer ones smaller,
often minute, glabrous to pubescent, entire, margin usually cilialate. Petals
6; outer ones glabrous; inner ones shallowly to deeply bifid, 0.6 - 1.5 mm, glabrous,
sometimes ciliolate. Ovary 0.5 - 0.75 mm, glabrous, sometimes pubescent. Fruits
globose, 4 - 10 mm across when ripe.