Dendropanax
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Description
Unarmed, usually glabrous small trees, or erect or subscandent shrubs.
Leaves simple, entire, or sometimes palmately 3-5-lobed, often with pellucid glands, without articulation between blade and petiole;
Flowers sexually dimorphic.
Petals 5, valvate.
Stamens 5-8, extrorse.
Ovary inferior, 4-8-celled;
Fruit globose or ellipsoid, usually strongly ribbed when dry;
Distribution
Asia-Temperate, Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present), N. Sumatra present, tropical America present
About 30 spp. in tropical America and eastern Asia south to Malesia (3 spp.): N. Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Borneo. .
Notes
Distinguished from Hedera by the normally erect habit and the smooth (or only weakly ruminate) endosperm.
Citation
Hutch. 1967 – In: Gen. Fl. Pl. p 71
Harms 1900 – In: E. & P., Nat. Pfl. Fam. p 254
Stone 1977 – In: Gard. Bull. Sing. p 148
Philipson 1940 – In: J. Bot. p 116
Harms 1894 – In: E. & P., Nat. Pfl. Fam. 3. p 40
Merr. 1941 – In: Brittonia. p 129
Philipson 1951 – In: Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. Bot. p 18
Hui-Lin Li 1942 – In: Sargentia. p 38
Bth. 1865 – In: B. & H., Gen. Pl. 1. p 944
Clarke 1879 – In: Fl. Br. Ind. p 733
Bth. 1865 – In: B. & H., Gen. Pl. 1. p 943