Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Trees to 15 m tall, andromonoecious, evergreen, unarmed.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves compound (palmate). Alternate. Leaflets 6–9(–11), elliptic to oblong–elliptic or obovate–elliptic, 7–18 × 3–5 cm. Apex abruptly acute to acuminate. Base attenuate or cuneate to obtuse or rounded. Surfaces densely stellate pubescent when young, glabrescent except on midvein and in axils of veins; blade papery to leathery. Margins entire, often serrate or pinnately lobed on young plants. Secondary veins 7–10 pairs, tertiary veins inconspicuous. Petioles (5–)10–30 cm; petiolules 1.5–5 cm. Stipules united within petiole.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescence a terminal panicle of umbels, densely stellate tomentose, glabrescent; primary axis to 35 cm; secondary axes 25(–35) cm, with a terminal umbel of bisexual flowers and several to many lateral umbels of bisexual or more often male flowers, usually also with 1 to several bisexual flowers borne just below apical umbel; pedicels 4–5 mm. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Calyx pubescent at first, entire or 5– or 6-toothed. Petals valvate. Stamens usually as many as and alternate with the petals, istinct, inserted at the edge of the epigynous nectary disk. Ovary inferior, 5–9(or 10)-carpellate; styles united into a thick column less than 1.5 mm.

Fruit: Drupes globose; ca. 5 mm in diam.; inconspicuously angled when dry; styles persistent; to ca. 1.5 mm. Seeds laterally compressed.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Mountain slopes.

Elevation Range: 100–2100 m.