Glochidion thomsonii (Müll.Arg.) Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 318. 1887; Kanjilal et al., Fl. Assam. 4: 185. 1940; Chakrab. & M.Gangop. in J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 19: 225, f. 2 D - G. 1995. Phyllanthus thomsonii Müll.Arg. in Flora 48: 375. 1865 & in DC., Prodr. 15(2): 293. 1866.

Shrubs or trees, 2 - 10 m tall, entirely glabrous. Leaves elliptic, oblong-elliptic to ovate, equal and acute, obtuse to rounded or unequal at base, often strongly curling upwards along margins on drying, acute, subacute to apiculate and mucronate at apex, 4 - 11 x 2 - 4.5 cm, coriaceous or occasionally chartaceous, glaucous beneath; lateral nerves 5 - 8 pairs; petioles 2 - 4 mm long. Inflorescences unisexual, many-flowered. Male flowers: pedicels 5 - 8 mm long; sepals elliptic to oblong, 2 - 2.5 x ca 1 mm; anthers 3, ca 1.2 mm long. Female flowers: pedicels 5 - 10 mm long; sepals ovate, triangular to suborbicular, 1 - 2.5 x 0.6 - 2 mm; ovary subglobose, ca 1 mm in diam., 3 (or 4)-locular; styles 3, free, deltoid, 0.3 - 0.8 mm long, forming a ring or cone. Fruits depressed subglobose, 2.5 - 4 x 6 - 8 mm, 3 (or 4)-locular, prominently lobed with the lobes deeply to shallowly bilobulate, crustaceous, smooth; pedicels 1 - 1.5 cm long, wiry.

Fl. & Fr. June - Nov.

Distrib. India: In thickets, at 200 - 1500 m altitudes. Assam and Meghalaya.

?Bangladesh and China.