密果花椒 mi guo hua jiao

Shrubs. Branchlets and leaves glabrous, unarmed or with prickles. Leaves 5-9-foliolate; petiolules 4-8 mm; leaflet blades alternate, lanceolate, long elliptic, or rarely ovate, 6-12 × 2.5-5 cm, thickly papery, oil glands numerous, reticulate veinlets abaxially inconspicuous and adaxially ridged, margin entire, apex acuminate to caudate with a rounded to retuse tip. Inflorescences axillary, thyrsiform. Female inflorescences 2-6 cm. Flowers 4-merous. Pedicel 1-2 mm. Perianth in 2 series. Petals pale yellowish green, ovate-elliptic, ca. 3 mm. Infructescences globose to conic. Fruit pedicel 5-8 mm; follicles pale yellow to brownish yellow when dry, ca. 7 mm, oil glands impressed, apex not beaked. Seeds dark brown, ca. 6 mm in diam. Fl. Apr, fr. Sep.

● Upland forests and thickets; ca. 1500 m. Guangxi (Damiao Shan), SE Guizhou (Rongjiang).