Brassaiopsis glomerulata (Blume) Regel

Tree up to 10 m, with stout often sinuous branches prickly in their upper parts, the young parts of the shoots and inflorescences rufous-tomentose. Leaves digitately compound, clustered at the ends of the shoots; petiole c. 25-60 cm, with an expanded basal sheath with two aculeate stipules; leaflets 5-9, petiolules c. 8-10 cm (the laterals shorter), blade elliptic-oblong, c. 15-25 by 6-10 cm, apex acuminate, base broadly cuneate to rounded, midrib prominent, lateral veins widely spaced, arched-ascending, margin serrulate. Inflorescence a large panicle; rachis 30-60 cm, lateral branches c. 20-30 cm, with umbellules arranged racemosely along them on peduncles c. 2-5 cm long, bracts numerous, lanceolate, c. 0.5 cm long, mostly persistent; umbellules with c. 25-35 flowers, pedicels 1-1¼ cm, subtended by numerous minute ferruginous bracts. Calyx of 5 small teeth. Petals 5, triangular, 3-4 mm long. Filaments 2-2½ mm, anthers oblong, 1 mm. Ovary obconic at anthesis, c. 2 mm high; disk fleshy, cushion-shaped, surmounted by an awl-shaped stylar column. Fruit globose, 6-7 mm high, with a persistent calyx rim and a stylar column usually 2 mm long but occasionally much shorter (even in the same inflorescence).

It is a tropical plant. It grows on mountain slopes and in valleys between 400-2,400 m above sea level. In Sichuan and Yunnan.

The fruit are eaten as chutney. The young leaves are made into chutney.