Brassaiopsis glomerulata (Blume) Regel

Flowering from June to August; fruiting in January and February.

Brassaiopsis glomerulata is occurring in Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan of China, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam.

The phylogeny of Brassaiopsis has been inferred using the internal transcribed spacer regions (ITS) and 5S nontranscribed spacer (5S-NTS) of the nuclear ribosomal DNA (Mitchell and Wen, 2005). The analysis of phylogeny suggests Brassaiopsis glomerulata, B. aculeata, and B. hainla form a clade.

Trees, to ca. 20 m tall, hermaphroditic. Branches prickly, ferruginous red tomentose when young. Leaves palmately compound, with 5-9 leaflets; petiole 30-50 cm, slender; petiolules 2-9 cm, slender, 1-1.5 mm in diameter; leaflets oblong, ovate-elliptic, or broadly lanceolate, 15-35 cm long, 6-15 cm wide, papery or subleathery, ferruginous stellate tomentose when young, soon glabrescent, secondary veins 7-10 (-12) pairs, base cuneate or broadly cuneate to rounded, margin entire or sparsely serrulate, apex acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, pendent, unarmed, ferruginous-red tomentose when young; primary axis more than 30 cm; peduncles 2-5 cm; umbels 2-3 cm in diameter; pedicels 0.8-1.5 cm at anthesis, 1-3.5 cm in fruit. Ovary 2-carpellate. Fruit globose or compressed-globose to didymo-globose, 7-10 mm in diameter; styles persistent, 1-2 mm.

Growing in dense forests on mountain slopes or in valleys; 400-2400 m.

Brassaiopsis glomerulata is used medicinally and as an ornamental.