Vasilis Teodoridis:
Sapindaceae | Mischocarpus
2. Mischocarpus pentapetalus (Roxburgh) Radlkofer; Sitzungsber. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. München. 9: 646. 1879.
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Schleichera pentapetala Roxburgh; Fl. Ind.; ed. 1832; 2: 275. 1832; Cupania pentapetala (Roxburgh) Wight & Arnott; Mischocarpus fuscescens Blume; M. productus H. L. Li.
Trees; evergreen; 4-10 m tall or more. Branches brownish red when dry; strong; stout; only pubescent when young. Leaves with petiole 20-45 cm; axis striate; petioles inflated at base; leaflets (2 or)3-5-jugate; petiolules 8-10 mm; blades dull when dry; lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate to oblong; 10-25 x 2.5-7.5 cm; papery or thinly leathery; glabrous; reticulate veins visible; slightly prominent; lateral veins 10-15 pairs; slightly curved; base broadly cuneate to subrounded; apex acuminate or shortly acuminate; mucronate. Inflorescences often multibranched; rarely racemose; solitary and axillary or several fascicled near branch apices; nearly as long as leaves or longer; main rachis and branches ± hairy. Pedicels 2-5 mm. Sepals triangular-ovate; ca. 1.5 mm; both surfaces pilose. Petals 1-5 or absent; lanceolate or scalelike. Disk hirsute. Filaments unequal in length; 2-3 mm; pilose. Capsules pear-shaped or clavate; 1.2-2.5 cm; part bearing seed 7-10 mm in diam.; usually 1-loculed; with 1 seed. Fl. spring; fr. summer.
Primary and secondary forests. Guangdong; Guangxi; Yunnan [widely distributed in tropical Asia].
This species is used for its timber.