Pseudopanax K.Koch

Plants dioec.; fls in simple or compound umbels, often racemosely arranged on rays. Calyx truncate or minutely 5-toothed; petals 5, valvate; stamens 5; ovary 5-or rarely 4-3-celled, style-branches often connate into short column. Fr. somewhat fleshy, 5-or rarely fewer-loculed, seeds one per locule. Shrubs or trees, glab. in all parts. Lvs digitately compound or simple by reduction. Some 10 spp. of South America and N.Z., the latter endemic.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.