光华鹅掌柴 guang hua e zhang chai

Trees, to ca. 20 m tall, hermaphroditic. Petiole 3.5-18.5 cm; petiolules (0.5-)1.5-8 cm, slender; leaflets (4 or)5, elliptic to slightly ovate, 5.5-20.5 × 2.6-7.5 cm, both surfaces glabrous, secondary veins 6-8 pairs, tertiary veins raised on both surfaces, prominent, base rounded to broadly acute, margin entire, revolute, minutely thickened, apex acuminate. Inflorescence a terminal (rarely lateral) panicle of umbels, densely light gray stellate; primary axis 1-6 cm; secondary axes 5.5-8 cm; pedicels 1-2 mm. Calyx a narrow rim. Ovary (7 or)8 or 9-carpellate; stigmas (7 or)8 or 9, sessile. Fruit globose to slightly ovoid, 3.5-4 mm in diam., (7 or)8- or 9-ribbed when dry, conspicuously red-orange glandular punctate; disk weakly concave, slightly undulate. Fl. Dec-Jan, Apr, fr. Apr-May.

● Evergreen broad-leaved forests; 1400-2700 m. SE Xizang (Mêdog).