Polyscias jacobsii
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Description
A monocaulous sympodial shrub to 3 m high, with leaves spaced along the upper part of the stem, young parts furfuraceous.
Leaves imparipinnate, 4-5 pairs of leaflets (leaves of juveniles smaller with fewer leaflets), c. 45 cm long;
Inflorescence a compound umbel (stem growth renewed by a bud between the inflorescence and the uppermost leaf);
Petals 5, attenuated.
Stamens 3 mm long, anthers 1.5 mm long.
Ovary subcylindric, furfuraceous, 4 mm high, 2-celled, disk forming a projecting conical stylopodium (1.5 mm long at anthesis), stigmas 2.
Fruit rotund, compressed, 8 by 9 mm, crowned by the small calyx and the persistent stylopodium (2 mm long) with sub- capitate stigmas.