Toxicodendron griffithii (Hook. fil.) Kuntze

Small trees; branchlets glabrous or subglabrous, lenticellate. Petiole 5.5-9 cm, petiole and rachis glabrous; leaf blade imparipinnately compound; leaflet petiolule 2-3 mm, minutely pubescent to glabrous; leaflets 7-11, opposite; leaflet blade oblong or ovate-oblong, 9-25 × 4-8 cm, coriaceous, adaxially glabrous, turning dark brown when dried, abaxially ferruginous, glabrous to minutely pubescent along veins, sometimes with tufts of hair in axils of veins, base rounded to subcordate, margin entire, lateral veins 15-20 pairs, reticulate venation prominent abaxially. Inflorescence paniculate, 13-22 cm, minutely pubescent; peduncle 5-6 cm, minutely pubescent, striate and lenticellate. Calyx minutely pubescent to subglabrous, lobes broadly ovate. Petals linear-oblong. Disk conspicuous. Ovary globose, densely pubescent. Drupe subglobose, (4-5 or)8-10 mm in diam., light yellow, minutely pubescent; epicarp irregularly dehiscent at maturity; mesocarp thick, waxy, with brown longitudinal resin ducts; endocarp compressed, ca. 3 × 5 mm.

SW Guizhou, Yunnan [India (Darjeeling)].

Hill and mountain forests and thickets; 1400-2500 m.