Harmsiopanax harmsii
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Description
Tree up to 7 m, with a slender trunk.
Leaves rounded, up to 30 by 40 cm, deeply palmately lobed, cordate at base, lobes 5-9 with broad sinuses between them, margin unevenly and sharply dentate, apex acute, upper surface densely covered with evenly spaced bristles of varying size (larger on the main veins), appressed and directed towards the leaf margin, often with woolly hairs inserted on their enlarged bases, the underside very densely woolly and with many bristles, usually bearing crisped hairs on their enlarged bases;
Flowers hermaphrodite, maturing in basipetal succession, the lower bracts of a branch either with sterile umbellules or lacking flowers;
Petals ovate, c. 1 mm long.
Panicle at first with numerous leaf-like bracts, the principal branches with some spines, rather sparsely covered with bristles and hairs, ultimate branches slender and tomentose, bearing linear bracts c. 4 mm long subtending peduncled umbellules;
Ovary covered with cilia which lengthen as the fruit ripens.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, Central Distr present, Madang Distr present, Morobe Distr present, Papua New Guinea present, Western Highlands present
Malesia: Papua New Guinea (Madang Distr., Western Highlands, Morobe Distr.&Central Distr.).