Chisocheton penduliflorus Planch. ex Hiern

Pachycaul treelet or tree to 10 m; bole to 10 cm diam. Bark blackish; inner bark pale fawn. Leafy twigs 6–7 mm diam. (–15 mm in fruit), ± densely to rusty tomentose. Leaves imparipinnate or pseudogemmulate, to 8-jugate; petiole to 22 cm, ± channelled adaxially. Leaflets (8–)17–27.5 by (3–)8–11.5 cm, elliptic-ovate to elliptic-oblong, subcoriaceous, subglabrous except for ± fulvescent-tomentose on veins adaxially, ± pubescent particularly on veins abaxially, base rounded to subcordate, sometimes asymmetrical, apex ± gradually long-acuminate, costae c. 15–22 on each side with conspicuous secondaries, prominent abaxially; petiolules to 1 mm. Inflorescence to 7 m, supra-axillary, pendent, unbranched or with distal branches to 7 cm long, usually with flowers congested in subsessile cymes at distal end, like a bellrope; axis 3–5 mm diam., densely rusty tomentose; bracts and bracteoles linear, hirsute. Calyx 3–4 mm tall, cupular to shortly cylindrical, pubescent, margin truncate to obscurely lobed. Corolla clavate in buck Petals 4 or 5, 18–22 mm long, linear-spathulate, concave, thick, dull red, pubescent without, adnate to staminal tube below. Staminal tube pilose without below lobes, long-pilose with downward directed hairs in lower half within, margin with 3–5 irregularly bifid lobes; anthers 3–5, c. 3 mm long, locellate, glabrous, included or slightly exserted. Disk obscure to shallowly cupular, fleshy, glabrous. Ovary 3(?–5)-locular, densely long-pilose; style densely long-pilose in proximal 3/4; stylehead subdiscoid to capitate with ± pubescent annulus. Capsules in infructescences of c. 10–15, to 5 cm long, recurved, rostrate when young, silky pubescent with (?)irritant hairs, splitting into 3 valves. Seeds 3; testa black, covered on inner surface by red-orange aril.

A tropical plant. It grows in evergreen forests near streams. In Thailand it grows between 50-300 m above sea level.

The fruit is edible.