WorldFloraDB - Tetrapanax

Characteristics

Shrubs to small trees, evergreen, hermaphroditic, unarmed, stellate pubescent. Leaves simple, palmately lobed, margin entire to coarsely serrate; stipules 2, awl-shaped, prominent, 7-8 cm. Inflorescence a terminal panicle of umbels, densely farinose stellate when young, glabrescent. Pedicels not articulate below ovary. Calyx nearly obsolete. Petals 4(or 5), valvate, abaxially tomentose. Stamens 4(or 5). Ovary 2-carpellate; styles 2, free, erect at anthesis, later recurved. Fruit a drupe, globose, slightly compressed laterally. Seeds laterally compressed, endosperm smooth.

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Shrub to small tree. Lvs alternate to subverticillate, petiolate, simple, palmately lobed, stipulate. Umbels in compound racemes; bracts lanceolate; bracteoles linear; calyx entire; petals 4, tomentose outside; stamens 4; ovary 2-locular; styles 2, free; stigmas terminal. Fr. subglobose, small, berry-like.

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