喙果漆 hui guo qi

Trees, ca. 18 m tall; branchlets glabrous, glaucous, yellow lenticellate; buds pubescent. Petiole 6-12 cm; leaf blade imparipinnately compound, 17-32 cm; leaflets 7-11, opposite; leaflet petiolule 3-6 mm; leaflet blade oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 6-13.5 × 2.5-5 cm, papery, glabrous on both surfaces, base subrounded, margin entire, apex acuminate, lateral veins 13-18 pairs, prominent on both surfaces. Inflorescence paniculate, 4.5-9 cm, glabrous. Pedicel ca. 2 mm; flowers small, ca. 2 mm in diam. Calyx glabrous, lobes ca. 0.5 mm. Petals lanceolate, ca. 1.5 × 0.5 mm, revolute at anthesis. Stamens ca. 1.7 mm, exserted. Disk shallowly cup-shaped, 5-lobed. Ovary globose, ca. 0.8 mm in diam., glabrous; style 1, 3-lobed. Drupe ovoid, ca. 12 × 6 mm, slightly compressed, with 4-5 mm beak apically. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Aug-Oct.

● Hill forests; ca. 1200 m. S Yunnan (Menglian).