Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Dendropanax selleanus (Urban & Ekman) A. C. Smith, Trop. Woods 66: 3. 1941.
Gilibertia selleana Urban & Ekman, Ark. Bot. 20A 6 : 32. 1926.
Shrub or tree, the branchlets slender, terete; petioles slender, striate, 1-5 cm. long; leafblades papyraceous, sometimes subentire but usually 3-lobed, 6-10 cm. long, 3-10 cm. broad, acute or broadly cuneate at the base, acuminate at the apex and at the apices of lobes, undulate or remotely crenate at the margins, densely and minutely (usually pellucid-) punctate, 3or 5-plinerved from the base, the principal nerves prominent, the secondary nerves few, spreading, slightly raised; inflorescence a simple axillary or terminal umbel, the peduncle straight, erect, 10-15 cm. long, inconspicuously bracteate at the base, the receptacle 5-7 mm. broad, the bracteoles minute, the flowers 5-merous, 40-50 per umbel, the pedicels 10-18 mm. long; calyx cupuliform, 1.5-2 mm. long, about 3 mm. broad, the teeth apiculate; petals oblong, about 3 mm. long and 1.5 mm. broad, reflexed at maturity; stamens not observed; summit of ovary short-conic, the styles connate at the base into a carnose column about 1.5 mm. long, free and recurved distally.
Type locality: Haiti.
Distribution: Haiti, at about 1800 m.
- bibliographic citation
- Albert Charles Smith, Mildred Esther Mathias, Lincoln Constance, Harold William Rickett. 1944-1945. UMBELLALES and CORNALES. North American flora. vol 28B. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY