Dendropanax querceti Donn. Sm.

Dendropanax querceti Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 42: 297. 1906.
Gilibertia querceti Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 55: 436. 1913.
Small tree or shrub, 1-7 m. high, the branchlets cinereous, often rugose; petioles rugose,
up to 40 (usually 5-20) mm. long; leaf-blades thin-coriaceous, elliptic to oblong-lanceolate,
5-13 cm. long, 1.5-5 cm. broad, attenuate at the base, acuminate at the apex, entire or remotely
callose-denticulate at the margins, pinnately veined, the costa raised on both surfaces, the
short secondary nerves and veinlets usually prominulous; inflorescence a simple terminal or
axillary umbel, rarely accompanied by 1 or 2 smaller inconspicuous lateral umbels, the peduncle
stout, 5-18 mm. long, the flowers 8-35, the receptacle 2-4 mm. broad, the pedicels 3-15 mm.
long; flowers 5-merous; calyx obconic, about 2 mm. long and broad, the teeth small, apiculate;
petals oblong, 1.5-2 mm. long, 1-1.5 mm. broad; filaments about 1 mm. long or more, the
anthers about 1 mm. long; styles connate into a carnose column about 0.5 mm. long, truncate;
fruit subglobose, 4-7 mm. in diameter, the apices of the styles at length minutely spreading;
seeds 5.
Type locality: Costa Rica.
Distribution: Costa Rica and western Panama, 1400-2200 m.