Gluta capituliflora Ding Hou

Tree up to 24 m high and 49 cm ø, occasionally with short buttresses up to ⅔ m high. Bark brown, smooth. Leaves subcoriaceous, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, or lanceolate, 5-17½ by 1-5½ cm; base cuneate to attenuate; apex acute to acuminate; nerves 6-14 pairs, slightly elevated on both surfaces; veins rather fine, reticulate, distinct on both surfaces; petiole 1—2(—3) cm. Panicles 8-10½ cm long, puberulous; pedicels c. ¼ mm, not articulated. Flowers crowded at the end of branchlets. Calyx 4-5 mm long, bursting irregularly, puberulous outside. Petals imbricate, narrowly elliptic, 9-10 by 1¾-2 mm, puberulous outside, papilllose inside. Stamens 5, 5-7 mm; filaments glabrous; anthers oblong, ½-⅔ mm. Torus cylindric, 3½-4 mm long. Ovary obliquely ellipsoid, c. 1 mm long, glabrous; stipe ¾-l mm; style lateral, 3-4 mm. Drupe bent almost horizontally, on a lateral stalk (c. ½ cm), broadly ellipsoid, 6-8 ½ by 4-5¾ by 3½-4¾ cm, light brown, scurfy; embryo subreniform, 5½-7 by 3½-4½ by 2½-3 cm; cotyledons incompletely fused, free on one side, free part 2¾-3¾ cm deep.

Lowland and submontane forest, commonly found upon ridges. Primary forests, sometimes along river banks, at elevations up to 300 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.