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Key to Symplocos

Symplocaceae

Symplocos

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1 Leaf margins sharply and finely glandular-dentate; inflorescence a terminal panicle; drupes blue (white); carpels 2; ovules 4 per carpel; [exotic, rarely cultivated and escaped]; [subgenus Palura]
1 Leaf margins entire to coarsely serrate-crenate; inflorescence an axillary fascicle; drupes green; carpels 3; ovules 2 per carpel; [native, common in parts of our area]; [subgenus Symplocos; section Barberina]