Dodecadenia grandiflora Nees

Evergreen trees, 10-15 m tall, ca. 30 cm d.b.h. Branchlets covered with dense brown pubescence or glabrous. Leaves alternate; petiole 8-10 mm, covered with pubescence; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, 5-10 × 2-3 cm, glabrous abaxially, along midrib pubescent adaxially, lateral veins 8-12 pairs, conspicuously reticulate-veined on both surfaces, base cuneate, apex acute or acuminate. Umbels 1-3-clustered in leaf axils, 1-flowered. Male flowers: perianth segments 6 in 2 whorls, outer ones broader, inner ones slightly narrow and pubescent outside; fertile stamens 12; filaments pubescent, of 3rd whorls each with 2 large glands at base, of 4th whorls with smaller glands; rudimentary pistil pubescent or glabrous. Female flowers: ovary pubescent or glabrous. Fruit ellipsoid, 10-12 × 7-9 mm, seated on discoid perianth tube; fruiting pedicel ca. 5 mm, stout.

It is a subtropical plant. It the Indian Himalayas it grows between 1,600-2,400 m above sea level. It grows in forests between 2,000-2,600 m above sea level in southern China. In Sichuan and Yunnan.

The ripe fruit are eaten.

Can be grown by seedlings.