Euptelea is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the monogeneric family Eupteleaceae. The genus is found from Assam east through China to Japan, and consists of shrubs or small trees: * Euptelea pleiosperma * Euptelea polyandra is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the engrailed. The flowers lack sepals and petals. The anthers are basifixed, and the leaves are arranged in whorls. The fossil range of the genus extends back to the Paleocene epoch, during much of the Cenozoic it was distributed widely over the Northern Hemisphere.