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Fagara kwangsiensis Handel-Mazzetti, Sinensia 3. 186. 1933.

Woody climbers. Young branchlets, leaf rachises, and inflorescences pubescent. Branchlets unarmed. Leaves 5-9-foliolate; leaflet blades subopposite or rarely alternate, lanceolate, ovate, or oblanceolate, 4-10 × 2-3 cm, papery, midvein abaxially pubescent and adaxially impressed and puberulent, base broadly cuneate, margin subentire or apically crenate, apex mucronate to caudate. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, thyrsiform, 2-15 cm. Fruit pedicel 5-10 mm; follicles ca. 5 mm, apex beaked. Seeds subglobose, ca. 4 mm in diam.

● Hillside thickets and open forests; 600-700 m. Chongqing (Fengjie, Wushan), N Guangxi, S Guizhou (Libo).

Hartley (J. Arnold Arbor. 47: 177. 1966) placed Fagara kwangsiensis in synonymy of Zanthoxylum scandens. Zanthoxylum kwangsiense was inadvertently omitted.