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|accepted_name=Symplocos
|accepted_authority=Jacquin
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum. Syst. Pl.,
|place=5, 24. 1760 ,
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|common_names=Sweetleaf
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Symplocaceae;Symplocos
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Symplocaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Symplocos]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek symplokos, connected, twisted, entwined, evidently alluding to connation of stamens and their adnation to petals in type species, S. martinicensis Jacquin
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 331
|treatment_page=page 330
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, glabrous or hairy (hairs simple, 1-celled, with transverse septa); new vegetative growth from axillary and/or pseudoterminal buds. <b>Branches</b> smooth at maturity, glabrous or white- or rufous-pubescent. <b>Leaves</b> often sweet tasting; blade with marginal teeth usually glandular, apex acute to acuminate, midvein abaxially prominent, adaxially raised, prominent, or impressed [rarely flat]. <b>Flowers</b> fragrant; sepals imbricate; petals imbricate, white or yellow [pink, reddish, or lavender]; filaments glabrous [hairy]; anthers rotund-ovate to spheric. <b>Drupes</b> usually blue, sometimes orange to brown [white], crowned by persistent calyx; endocarp 1[–5]-celled. <b>x</b> = 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=e;s United States;West Indies (Antilles);South America (Argentina;Brazil);Asia (China;India;Japan);Pacific Islands (Fiji);Australia;temperate;tropical;and subtropical areas.
|discussion=<p>Species 318 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>1 Leaf midveins impressed adaxially, blade margins closely serrate, serrulate, or dentate; inflorescences paniculate, usually internodal; flowers appearing with leaves; corolla lobes</p><!--
--><p>2.5–5 mm; styles 2–4 mm; drupes bright blue to bluish black 1. Symplocos paniculata</p>
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf midveins impressed adaxially, blade margins closely serrate, serrulate, or dentate; inflorescences paniculate, usually internodal; flowers appearing with leaves; corolla lobes 2.5-5 mm; styles 2-4 mm; drupes bright blue to bluish black.
|[[Symplocos paniculata|Symplocos paniculata]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf midveins raised to prominent adaxially, blade margins usually obscurely crenulate-serrulate, teeth remote, sometimes nearly entire; inflorescences fasciculate, axillary; flowers appearing before leaves; corolla lobes 6-8 mm; styles 5-6 mm; drupes dark orange to brown.
|[[Symplocos tinctoria|Symplocos tinctoria]]
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name=Symplocos
|author=
|authority=Jacquin
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
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|basionyms=
|family=Symplocaceae
|distribution=e;s United States;West Indies (Antilles);South America (Argentina;Brazil);Asia (China;India;Japan);Pacific Islands (Fiji);Australia;temperate;tropical;and subtropical areas.
|reference=None
|publication title=Enum. Syst. Pl.,
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|genus=Symplocos
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