Vasilis Teodoridis:
Araliaceae | Dendropanax
4. Dendropanax dentiger (Harms) Merrill; Brittonia. 4: 132. 1941.
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Gilibertia dentigera Harms; Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 29: 487. 1900; Dendropanax chevalieri var. dentiger (Harms) H. L. Li; D. inflatus H. L. Li; D. inflatus f. multiflorus C. J. Tseng & G. Hoo; D. inflatus f. paniculatus C. J. Tseng & G. Hoo; D. inflatus f. prominens C. J. Tseng & G. Hoo; G. dentigera var. anodonta Handel-Mazzetti; G. intercedens Handel-Mazzetti; G. sinensis Nakai; Textoria dentigera (Harms) Nakai; T. sinensis (Nakai) Nakai.
Shrubs or small trees; to ca. 10 m tall; hermaphroditic. Petiole (0.5-)1-9 cm; leaf blade sometimes dimorphic; glandular punctate or not; unlobed blades ovate-elliptic or elliptic; less often oblong-elliptic to elliptic (or lanceolate especially in young plants); (4-)7-13(-27) x 1.5-6(-8) cm; 3-veined; secondary veins 2-6 pairs; lobed blades (when present) palmately 2- or 3-lobed; lobes narrowly triangular-ovate or ovate-lanceolate; tertiary veins raised on both surfaces; leathery (less often papery); base broadly cuneate to rounded; margin entire; often with irregularly scattered narrowly triangular teeth to ca. 1.5 mm; sometimes minutely revolute; apex acute to acuminate (rarely caudate). Inflorescence terminal; umbels solitary or 2 or 3(-5); 2-5 cm in diam.; 10-25(-50)-flowered; peduncle 1-5 cm; stout; pedicels 0.2-1.5 cm in flower; to 3 cm in fruit. Calyx rim entire to minutely 5-toothed. Ovary 5-carpellate; styles 5; united at base (sometimes free nearly to base). Fruit ellipsoid to subglobose; rarely obloid; globose; or pyriform; 5-12 x 4-7 mm; ribbed when dry; styles persistent; 1.5-2 mm; free arms divergent to recurved apically. Fl. Jun; Aug-Sep; fr. Jul; Oct-Dec.
Evergreen broad-leaved forests or scrub; from near sea level to 1800 m. S Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; W Hubei; Hunan; Jiangxi; Sichuan; NE and SE Yunnan; Zhejiang [Cambodia; Laos; Thailand; Vietnam].