Helwingia chinensis Batalin

Shrubs evergreen, 1–2 m tall; bark dark gray or light grayish brown; young branches purplish green. Leaf petiole 0.5–2 (–4) cm; stipules narrowly linear; leaf blade abaxially light green, linear-lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, rarely elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, 4–15 × 0.4–2(–4) cm, leathery, rarely thickly papery, veins 6–8, inconspicuous, base cuneate or ± rounded, margin sparsely glandular spiculate-serrate, rarely crenate, sometimes revolute, apex long acuminate. Umbels near mid point of midvein on adaxial surface of blade or on upper part of young branches. Flowers of staminate umbels 4 or 5, 3–5-merous; pedicel 2–10(–14) mm. Flowers of carpellate umbels 1–3, nearly sessile or pedicel to 2 mm; stigma 3–5-divided. Fruit oblong, ca. 5–7(–9) mm in diam. Seeds 3–5, 3–5-ridged (grooved); pedicel 1–2 mm. Fl. Apr–May, fr. Aug–Oct.

S Gansu, Guizhou, W Hubei, Hunan, S Shaanxi, Sichuan, SE Xizang, Yunnan [N Myanmar, Thailand].

Broad-leaved forests, mixed woods, thickets on slopes; 1000–2600 m.

Helwingia chinensis is a plant species first described by Alexander Theodorowicz Batalin. Helwingia chinensis is part of the genus Helwingia and the family Helwingiaceae.

It was collected and brought to the United States by Daniel J. Hinkley as part of his expedition to China's Sichuan Province in 1996.

Helwingia chinensis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Helwingiaceae. Loài này được Batalin mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1893.

中华青荚叶（学名：Helwingia chinensis），为山茱萸科下的一个植物变种。