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.

KEY TO THE SUBSPECIES

1a. Sepals 4 - 5; empty bracts absent

4.2. simplicifolia

b. Sepals 4 - 5; empty bracts 1 - 6.

2

2a. Leaves of flowering twigs oblong to lanceolate, usually entire, rarely dentate; empty bracts 4 - 6

4.1. pungens

b. Leaves of the flowering twigs oblong to oblong-Ianceolate, usually dentate, rarely entire; empty bracts 1 - 3.

3

3a. Leaves 7 - 32 cm long, midrib distinctly pubescent above; panicles 15 - 50 cm long

4.3. thomsonii

b. Leaves 3 - 15 cm long, usually glabrous; panicles 4 - 20 cm long

4.4. Yunnanensis

List of Lower Taxa

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