Oreopanax echinops (Schltdl. & Cham.) Decne. & Planch.

Oreopanax echinops (Schlecht. & Cham.) Dec. & Planch Rev. Hortic. IV. 3: 108. 1854.
Aralia echinops Schlecht. & Cham. Linnaea 5: 174. 1830. Hedera echinops G. Don, Gen. Hist. 3: 394. 1834.
Shrub or tree, to 10 m. high, the branchlets densely ferruginous-stellate-tomentose, at length glabrescent; leaves palmately compound, the petiole resembling the branchlets, up to 50 cm. long, dilated at the base, the leaflets of mature leaves 5 (the juvenile leaves simple or trilobed or trifoliolate), radiate, sessile or with inconspicuous petiolules up to 1.5 cm. long, the blades papyraceous, obovate-elliptic, up to 40 cm. long and 19 cm. broad, acute or subattenuate at the base, acuminate at the apex (acumen 1-3 cm. long), subentire or remotely denticulate (the teeth apiculate, terminating lateral nerves), scabrous and stellate-pilose above, densely stellate-pilose beneath especially on the nerves (the hairs slender, stalked, 3-6-branched), the costa nearly plane above, prominent beneath, the lateral nerves about 6-9, spreading; inflorescence racemosely capituliferous, up to 50 cm. long, the rachis and peduncles densely stellatetomentose, the bracts oblong, acute, 4-8 mm. long, tomentose, the peduncles 10-25 mm. long; staminate heads globose, 13-20 mm. in diameter, the bractlets oblong-spatulate, about 5 mm. long; flowers very numerous, the bracteoles submembranous, spatulate or linear, 5-7 mm. long, about 1.5 mm. broad or much narrower, densely villose distally without; pedicels often 2-5 mm. long, passing imperceptibly into obconic calyces, the calyx about 1 mm. in diameter, the lobes rounded; petals oblong, about 2.5 mm. long and 1 mm. broad, slightly thickened at the apex; filaments up to 4 mm. long, the anthers 1-1.5 mm. long; summit of the ovary slightly raised, the disk inconspicuous, the style about 1.5 mm. long; hermaphrodite heads up to 30 mm. in diameter, the young fruit sessile, the bracteoles 7-10 mm. long, 1.5-5 mm. broad, often caudate-acuminate at the apex, densely villose without; fruit obovoid, coriaceous, 7-10 mm. long, 3-5 mm. broad, the styles 5, separate to the base, 3-4 mm. long, at length deciduous; seeds often reduced to 1 .
Type locality: Vera Cruz.
Distribution: Michoacan and Vera Cruz to Guatemala.

Oreopanax echinops is a species of plant in the family Araliaceae. It is found in Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. It is threatened by habitat loss.