Pentapanax elegans
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Description
Epiphytic scrambler or terrestrial shrub up to 10 m, with unarmed branches, leaf and flower buds separate, enclosed in ± persistent imbricated cataphylls.
Leaves disposed along the branches;
Inflorescence terminal with persistent cataphylls at the base of the main axis, umbels solitary or 1-4 smaller (apparently male) lateral umbels arising from the axils of minute bracts on the rachis;
Ovary broadly obconic, surmounted by a stylar column, 2 mm long.
Fruit globose, 3-4 mm ø, disk broadly conical, crowned by the persistent calyx lobes and an awl-shaped stylar column which may divide at apex.