• Scientific Name: Barringtonia macrostachya (Jack) Kurz
• Ref: Prelim. Rep. Forest Pegu, App. A: lxvi. 1875
• Synonyms: Baranda angatensis Llanos; Barringtonia acuminata Korth.; B. annamica Gagnep.; B. balabacensis Merr.; B. cochinchinensis (Blume) Merr. ex Gagnep.; B. craibiana R.Knuth; B. cylindrostachya Griff.; B. fusicarpa Hu; B. isabelaensis R.Knuth; B. moluccana R.Knuth; B. olivacea R.Knuth; B. pendens R.Knuth; B. rosea Wall. ex R.Knuth; B. wallichiana R.Knuth; Careya macrostachya Jack; Doxomma acuminatum (Korth.) Miers; D. cochinchinense (Blume) Miers; D. cylindrostachyum (Griff.) Miers; D. macrostachyum (Jack) Miers; Michelia acuminata (Korth.) Kuntze; M. macrostachya (Jack) Kuntze; Stravadium acuminatum (Korth.) Blume; S. cochinchinense Blume
• Chinese Common Name: 梭果玉蕊 suōguǒ yùruǐ
• Family: Lecythidaceae
• Genus: Barringtonia
• Distribution: Dense humid forests; 100-800 m. S and SE Yunnan.
• Photo: 06/21/2009, South China Botanical Garden, Guangdong

Trees 15-30 m tall, to 1 m d.b.h., glabrous. Branches stout, ribbed; bark gray. Leaves in fascicles at branchlet tips, petiolate; petiole 2-4.5 cm, canaliculate; leaf blade adaxially glaucous when dried, obovate-oblong to oblong, 15-30 × 5-12 cm, papery, base cuneate, margin entire or inconspicuously dentate, apex acuminate; lateral veins in ca. 14 pairs. Spikes terminal or axillary on old branches, long, to 100 cm, pendulous. Flowers sessile. Calyx with tube 2.5-3 mm, becoming 2-4-lobed at anthesis; lobes elliptic to subovate, 0.7-1.3 cm, abaxially pubescent. Petals 4, white or pink-white, elliptic to subovate, 1.5-2 cm. Staminal tube ca. 2.5 mm; filaments pink-red, ca. 2.5 cm. Style filiform, ca. 3.5 cm. Fruit brown, fusiform, to 11 × 4 cm; exocarp pulverulent. Fl. and fr. almost year-round. (Flora of China)

06/21/2009, South China Botanical Garden, Guangdong