- Scientific Name: Archidendron lucidum (Benth.) I.C.Nielsen
- Ref: Adansonia, n.s., 19:19. 1979
- Synonyms: Abarema lucida (Benth.) Kosterm.; Albizia championii Benth.; Feuilleea championii (Benth.) Kuntze; Pithecellobium lucidum Benth.
- Chinese Common Name: 亮叶猴耳环 liàngyè hóu’ěr∙huán, 亮叶围诞树 liàngyè wéidàn∙shù
- Japanese Common Name: アカハダノキ [赤肌の木] akahadanoki
- Family: Fabaceae
- Genus: Archidendron
- Distribution: Thin forests; 100-1400 m. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam].
- Photo: Mazhan, Cangnan, Zhejiang
Trees, 2-10 m tall, unarmed. Branchlets terete. Branchlet, petiole, and inflorescence shortly brown tomentose. Pinnae 1 or 2 pairs; leaf rachis and base of petiole with round, sunken glands; leaflets 2 or 3 pairs in lower pinnae, 4 or 5 pairs in upper pinnae, adaxially shiny and deep green, obliquely ovate or oblong, 5-9(-11) × 2-4.5 cm, apical ones larger, opposite, proximal ones alternate and smaller, both surfaces glabrous or puberulent on veins, base oblique, apex acuminate, mucronate. Heads globose, 10-20-flowered, arranged in panicles; peduncles to 1.5 cm. Flowers sessile. Calyx less than 2 mm, calyx and corolla shortly brown tomentose. Corolla white, 4-5 mm; lobes connate at middle. Staminal tube slightly shorter than corolla tube. Ovary shortly stipitate, glabrous. Legume twisted into a circle, 2-3 cm wide, margin between seeds constricted. Seeds black, ca. 1.5 × 1 cm. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. Jul-Dec. (Flora of China)
