English: Chinese Tapiscia.
German: Chinesische Tapiscia.
Clades: Angiosperms, Eudicots, Rosids, Malvids, Huerteales, Tapisciaceae
Region: East Asia, Southwestern China, Northern Vietnam.
Habitat: moist montane broadleaved forests, valleys, stream margins, mountain slopes; 500 to 2200 m elevation.
Content: secondary metabolites, flavonoids, tannins.
Use: ornamental, shade tree; wood for light construction and furniture.
Other: Relict species surviving Tertiary glaciations; exhibits an unusually long 17-month fruit development period and an uncommon androdioecious breeding system (coexistence of male and hermaphroditic individuals)

BotanyType: tree, up to 10 to 15 to 25 m tall, deciduous.
Root: deep woody taproot system; wide-spreading.
Stem: straight, erect; greyish-brown bark; smooth to shallowly fissured; prominent lenticels
Leaves: alternate; odd-pinnately compound; leaflets 5 to 9, 30 to 45 cm long, ovate to elliptic, serrate margins, dark green above and densely greyish-glaucous beneath
Inflorescence: axillary; multi-branched panicles; male inflorescences are slender and densely flowered spikes;hermaphroditic inflorescences are stouter and shorter
Flowers: small; honey-scented; yellowish-white; functional androdioecious (male or bisexual); featuring 5 persistent tubular calyx lobes; 5 petals; 5 stamens surrounding a 1-locular superior ovary with a single basal ovule.
Pollination: by insects.
Fruit: drupe or berry-like fruit; small, 7 eo 10 mm; egg-shaped to subglobose; black .
Seed: single, hard, blackish; surrounded by fleshy or leathery fruit pulp.
Dispersion: by frugivorous birds, gravity, water.