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Thailand [dipping into my Thai archive] - dry hills about 5 km south-south-east of Namtok Sarika, southern outlier of Khao Yai range, Nakhon Nayok Province. I had the impression this was part of a private recreation park.

Thailand [dipping into my Thai archive] - dry hills about 5 km south-south-east of Namtok Sarika, southern outlier of Khao Yai range, Nakhon Nayok Province. I had the impression this was part of a private recreation park.

Thailand [dipping into my Thai archive] - dry hills about 5 km south-south-east of Namtok Sarika, southern outlier of Khao Yai range, Nakhon Nayok Province. I had the impression this was part of a private recreation park.

Thailand [dipping into my Thai archive] - dry hills about 5 km south-south-east of Namtok Sarika, southern outlier of Khao Yai range, Nakhon Nayok Province. I had the impression this was part of a private recreation park.

Thailand [dipping into my Thai archive] - dry hills about 5 km south-south-east of Namtok Sarika, southern outlier of Khao Yai range, Nakhon Nayok Province. I had the impression this was part of a private recreation park.

A shrub of around 1.5 m height, growing among granite rocks. It appears to have simple entire leaves with small stipules and a furry pubescence. Fruits are distinctive, flattened and I would guess 2-locular, with remains of a single style. I wonder about something in the Sterculiaceae (in the traditional sense) as a possibility, or maybe Rhamnaceae.

Uploaded as "Unknown family and genus", but now identified as Hymenocardia punctata thanks to Andrey Zharkikh. See www.nationaalherbarium.nl/thaieuph/ThHspecies/ThHymenocar...

This is one of the euphorbiaceous genera now placed in Phyllanthaceae. This species often found under its synonym H. wallichii.