柄果木 bing guo mu

Trees, small, evergreen, 3-10 m tall. Branches darkish red, glabrous. Leaves with petiole 10-20 cm, axis and branchlets concolorous; leaflets often 2-jugate, sometimes 1-jugate; petiolules ca. 1 cm; blades adaxially shiny, ovate or oblong-ovate, 5-13 × 2-5 cm, leathery, adaxially smooth, reticulate veins delicate and visible abaxially, invisible when dry adaxially, base rounded or sometimes broadly cuneate, apex shortly acuminate. Inflorescences compound racemose, branched near base, sometimes racemose and unbranched, densely pubescent. Pedicels 1-2 mm. Calyx pilose. Petals absent. Filaments and disk glabrous. Capsules pear-shaped, including stalk 8-9 mm, stalk 2-2.5 mm, usually 1-loculed, with 1 seed. Fl. Oct-Nov, fr. spring-summer.

Coastal forests. Guangxi, Hainan [widely distributed in SE Asia].