Mischocarpus pentapetalus (Roxb.) Radlk.

This species is used for its timber.

Trees, evergreen, 4-10 m tall or more. Branches brownish red when dry, strong, stout, only pubescent when young. Leaves with petiole 20-45 cm, axis striate, petioles inflated at base; leaflets (2 or)3-5-jugate; petiolules 8-10 mm; blades dull when dry, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate to oblong, 10-25 × 2.5-7.5 cm, papery or thinly leathery, glabrous, reticulate veins visible, slightly prominent, lateral veins 10-15 pairs, slightly curved, base broadly cuneate to subrounded, apex acuminate or shortly acuminate, mucronate. Inflorescences often multibranched, rarely racemose, solitary and axillary or several fascicled near branch apices, nearly as long as leaves or longer, main rachis and branches ± hairy. Pedicels 2-5 mm. Sepals triangular-ovate, ca. 1.5 mm, both surfaces pilose. Petals 1-5 or absent, lanceolate or scalelike. Disk hirsute. Filaments unequal in length, 2-3 mm, pilose. Capsules pear-shaped or clavate, 1.2-2.5 cm, part bearing seed 7-10 mm in diam., usually 1-loculed, with 1 seed. Fl. spring, fr. summer.

Primary and secondary forests. Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan [widely distributed in tropical Asia].

Schleichera pentapetala Roxburgh, Fl. Ind., ed. 1832, 2: 275. 1832; Cupania pentapetala (Roxburgh) Wight & Arnott; Mischocarpus fuscescens Blume; M. productus H. L. Li.