Sycopsis sinensis Oliver

Trees to 14 m tall; young branches lepidote, older growth drying dark brown, glabrous. Petiole 0.8–1.8 cm; leaf blade narrowly ovate or lanceolate, 5–12 × 2.5–4 cm, discolorous, abaxially sparsely stellately pubescent, glabrescent, adaxially shiny, stellately pubescent when young, soon glabrous, base cuneate or obtuse, margin entire or distally serrulate, apex acuminate; lateral veins 6 or 7 on each side. Inflorescences 7- or 8-flowered. Floral bracts brown, ovate-rounded, 6–8 mm, stellately pubescent. Male flowers: floral cup short, reduced pistil pubescent. Bisexual flowers: floral cup 1.7–2 mm, pubescent. Sepals ovate. Filaments slender, 1–1.2 cm; anthers red, 1.8–2 mm, apex acute. Ovary pubescent; styles 5 mm, coiled backwards. Capsules 8–10 mm, villous, dehiscing irregularly; persistent floral cup 3–4 mm; persistent styles 1–2 mm. Seeds 5–7 mm. Fl. Apr–Jun, fr. Jul–Sep.

Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang.Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang.

Mountain thickets, evergreen forests; 1300--1500 m.

Distylium formosanum Kanehira; Sycopsis formosana (Kanehira) Kanehira & Hatusima; S. sinensis var. integrifolia Diels.