Schefflera rhododendrifolia (Griff.) Frodin

Trees, to 20 m tall, andromonoecious. Petiole to 30 cm; petiolules 1-2.5 cm, stout; leaflets (5 or)6 or 7(-9), narrowly obovate or oblong-lanceolate to nearly elliptic, 12-20 × 3-5 cm, leathery, abaxially densely gray-white stellate pubescent when young, later glabrescent and glaucous, adaxially glabrous and rugose, secondary veins 8-12 pairs, tertiary veins distinctly impressed adaxially in dry material, base cuneate, margin entire, revolute, sometimes with serrate or pinnate lobes on young plants, apex acuminate. Inflorescence a terminal panicle of umbels, densely stellate tomentose, glabrescent; primary axis to 20 cm; secondary axes to 18 cm; pedicels 5-10 mm. Calyx ca. 3 mm, inconspicuously 5-toothed. Ovary 5-carpellate; styles united into a column. Fruit globose, 4-5 mm in diam., 5-angular when dry; styles persistent, 1.5-2 mm; stigmas subcapitate. Fl. Aug, fr. unknown. 2n = 48.

SE Xizang [Bhutan, India, Nepal].

Evergreen broad-leaved forests; 2500-3200 m.

Panax rhododendrifolius Griffith, Init. Pl. Khasyah Mts. 487. 1848; Agalma glaucum Seemann; A. tomentosum (Buchanan-Hamilton) Seemann; Hedera tomentosa Buchanan-Hamilton; Heptapleurum glaucum (Seemann) C. B. Clarke (1879), not Kurz (1877); H. impressum C. B. Clarke; Schefflera impressa (C. B. Clarke) Harms.

Schefflera rhododendrifolia là một loài thực vật có hoa trong Họ Cuồng cuồng. Loài này được (Griff.) Frodin miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 2003 publ. 2004.