那坡鹅掌柴 na po e zhang chai

Schefflera oblonga C. B. Shang, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 18: 90. 1980, not Craib (1930).

Trees, to ca. 5 m tall, ?hermaphroditic. Petiole ca. 18 cm; petiolules 0.4-2 cm; leaflets 5-7, oblong or obovate-oblong, 4-10 × 2-5 cm, leathery, both surfaces glabrous, secondary veins 12-16 pairs, conspicuous, tertiary veins slightly impressed adaxially in dry material, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin entire or remotely serrate apically, apex abruptly acute. Inflorescence a terminal panicle of umbels, yellow-brown pubescent, then glabrescent; primary axis ca. 25 cm, secondary axes to ca. 10 cm; pedicels 2-5 mm. Ovary 4- or 5-carpellate; styles united into a column. Fruit (immature) globose, ca. 7 mm in diam.; styles persistent, ca. 2 mm. Fl. May.

● Open slopes. W Guangxi (Napo).