Zanthoxylum schinifolium Siebold & Zucc.

Shrubs 1-2 m tall. Stems and branchlets with prickles. Young branchlets dark purplish red. Leaves 7-19-foliolate; petiolules obsolete or to 3 mm; leaflet blades opposite, or alternate toward base of rachis, broadly ovate, broadly ovate-rhombic, or lanceolate, 5-10(-70) × 4-6(-25) mm, papery, oil glands numerous or inconspicuous, midvein adaxially impressed, base symmetrically or sometimes obliquely rounded to broadly cuneate, margin serrate to subentire, apex mucronate to acuminate. Inflorescences terminal. Flowers 5-merous. Perianth in 2 series. Petals pale yellowish white, ca. 2 mm. Male flowers: rudimentary gynoecium 2- or 3-lobed. Female flowers: carpels 3(-5). Fruit follicles reddish brown but dark green to brownish black when dry, 4-5 mm in diam., oil glands small, apex not beaked. Seeds 3-4 mm in diam. Fl. Jul-Sep, fr. Sep-Dec.

Anhui, Fujian, N Guangdong, N Guangxi, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Shandong, Taiwan, Zhejiang [Japan (including Ryukyu Islands), Korea].

Upland open forests and thickets; below 800 m.

Fagara pteropoda (Hayata) Y. C. Liu; F. schinifolia (Siebold & Zuccarini) Engler; Zanthoxylum mantschuricum Bennett; Z. pteropodum Hayata.

Zanthoxylum schinifolium, also called mastic-leaf prickly ash, is a species of flowering plant in the Rutaceae, the citrus family.

It was first described and published in Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. vol.4 (Issue 2) on page 137 in 1845 by botanists Philipp Franz von Siebold and Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini.

It is native range to central and eastern China to temperate eastern Asia, which includes Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan. It is a shrub that grows primarily in the temperate biome regions.

There 2 accepted and known varieties;

Zanthoxylum schinifolium var. okinawense (Nakai) Hatus. ex Simabuku Zanthoxylum schinifolium var. schinifolium

Its peppercorns are the source of the spice Sancho (spice) which is used in Chinese cuisine.

Fungal pathogen species Pestalotiopsis kenyana is known to cause leaf spot disease on Zanthoxylum schinifolium in Sichuan Province, China.