Shrubs, to 3 m tall, hermaphroditic. Petiole 0.5-7 cm; leaf blade papery to leathery, usually not glandular punctate, 3-veined, secondary veins 5-12 pairs; unlobed blades elliptic, oblong, ovate-elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate, to narrowly lanceolate, 2.5-18(-24) × 1-7 cm, base cuneate to nearly rounded, apex acuminate or long acuminate, rarely abruptly acute; lobed blades obtriangular, deeply 2-or 3-cleft, lobes lanceolate to elliptic; margin entire, often with irregularly spaced, narrowly triangular teeth to ca. 1 mm. Inflorescence terminal; umbels solitary or 2 or 3(-5), (15-)20-40-flowered; peduncle 0.5-2 cm, stout; pedicels 0.5-2 cm in flower and fruit. Calyx entire or minutely 4-or 5-toothed. Ovary 4-or 5-carpellate; styles 4 or 5, completely united, ca. 1 mm. Fruit ovoid to globose, 4-8 mm, without ribs when dry; stylar column 1-1.5 mm, stigmas sessile. Fl. Jul-Sep, fr. Sep-Dec.
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