Zanthoxylum wutaiense (Chinese: 屏東花椒, ping dong hua jiao, Pingtung County prickly ash) is a woody plant from the family Rutaceae.

[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Zanthozylum wutaiense is a shrub with glabrous branches and barbed spines.

The leaf has 5–13 leaflets, with narrow wing leaves near the top of the leaf axis; the leaflets are opposite, sessile, leathery, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 3–10 cm long and 1–2 cm wide.

The top of the leaflet is acuminate and the base tapered or wedge-pointed.

The flowers are yellow and form axillary panicles; the peduncle is 3 mm long.