Alangium chinense is a species of flowering plant in the Alangiaceae family. It is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine. In Hunan herbal medicine it is used for snake bites, circulation, contraception, hemostasis, numbness, poison, rheumatism.

Shrubs or small trees, 3-5 m tall. Branchlets pubescent when young, glabrescent. Petiole reddish, 4-6 cm; leaf blade ovate or orbicular to cordate, 8-20 × 5-12 cm, abaxially tufted pubescent at axils of veins, adaxially glabrous, strongly 3-5-veined at base, base usually oblique, occasionally rounded or subrounded, or triangular, margin entire or with few shallow lobes, apex acuminate.

From the dried leaves of Alangium chinense, five novel phenolic glycosides, 6'-O-galloylsalicin; 4',6'-di-O-galloylsalicin; 4',6'-O-(S)-hexahydroxydiphenoylsalicin; 4', 6'-O-(R)-hexahydroxydiphenoylsalicin; and pyrocatechol 1-O-beta-D-xylopyranosyl(1-->6)-beta-D-glucopyranoside were isolated.