Dendropanax Decne. & Planch.

Shrubs or trees, our species generally glabrous throughout. Leaves simple, the juvenile blades occasionally lobed, the mature blades usually entire; apparently estipulate. Inflorescences with 2-20 umbels (rarely heads) racemosely or um-bellately arranged in a single terminal or axillary umbel, the floriferous peduncles subtended by small bracts, sometimes bracteate and articulate above the base, swollen distally into an often carnose receptacle; pedicels continuous with the calyx, bracteate at the base. Flowers bisexual or polygamo-monoecious, 5-to 9-merous; calyx obconic or cupuliform, the limb short, usually denticulate; petals free, usually carnose and greenish-white, subacute and slightly cucullate at the apex, valvate; stamens twice as many as the petals, inflexed in bud, the anthers with loosely coherent thecae; disc short-conic, confluent with the styles; style connate into a short column or essentially free, the ovary thick-walled, the locules and ovules 5-9. Fruit subglobose or ellipsoid, sulcate, surmounted by the persistent short calyx-limbs and stylar column or styles, the seeds usually as many as the locules.

Rain-forest in lowland and montane regions, 300-3100 m.