Mischocarpus sundaicus Blume

Shrub or tree, up to 10(-30) m high; puberulous in the young parts and inflorescences. Twigs 1.5-5 mm in diam., usually reddish brown. Leaves 1-3-(or 4)jugate (or simple); petiole 1-11 cm long; petiolules 3-8 mm long. Leaflets ovate to elliptic, 4-17(-26) by 1.5-7(-10) cm, index 2-4.5, pergamentaceous to subcoriaceous; base rounded or angular; (margin slightly re volute); domatia usually present in the axils of the nerves below; midrib prominent above, broad to rather narrow, usually rounded, often locally angular (to completely so); nerves 8-15 per side, moderately curved, beneath prominent; veins densely reticulate, prominu-lous to smooth above, beneath more prominent to the margin. Inflorescences axillary and pseudoterminal, 1.5-25 cm long, branched; cymules shortly stalked; pedicels 1-3 mm long; bracts triangular, up to 1.5 mm long (to up to 6 by 2 mm), usually caducous. Calyx connate for ¼-⅓; lobes triangular, 0.65-2 by 0.5-1 mm, subcoriaceous, outside puberulous to pubescent in the lower half (to rarely so apically), inside glabrous (to a few hairs). Petals 0 (up to 3 in Peninsular Malaysia), up to 1.5 mm long, elliptic to oblong, glabrous or with a few hairs near the base, inconspicuously auriculate. Disc annular, 1-2 mm in diam., glabrous or sparsely puberulous. Stamens (6-)8(-9), up to 4 mm long; filaments glabrous; anthers not papillate, glabrous. Pistil puberulous. Fruit 7-17(-20) mm high, glabrous or very sparsely puberulous; stipe 2-14 by 1-1.5 mm; seed-bearing part globose to ellipsoid, round to faintly triangular in cross section, apiculus 1-2 by 0.5-1 (-2) mm, inside glabrous (to pubescent along the sutures); endocarp completely sclerenchymatic. Seeds globose to ellipsoid, up to 7 mm long; cotyledons superposed, about equal.

An understorey plant in primary and secondary forest in coastal and lowland areas; at elevations up to 800 metres, occasionally to 1,600 metres.

The fruit can be eaten. The young shoots are edible.

Plants can be grown from seeds.