Dendropanax oliganthus (A. C. Sm.) A. C. Sm.

Dendropanax oliganthus A. C. Smith, Trop. Woods 66: 3. 1941.
Giliberlia oliganlha A. C. Smith, Brittonia 2: 251. 1936.
Tall tree, the branchlets stout, terete, rugose; petioles striate, shallowly canaliculate, 1.5-6 cm. long; leaf-blades coriaceous, oblong or narrowly obovate, 9-15 cm. long, 3-6.5 cm. broad, acute or obtuse at the base, acute or short-acuminate or obtusely cuspidate at the apex, entire or remotely callose-denticulate at the margins, pinnately veined, the costa prominent, the secondary nerves about 7 per side, curved, with the reticulate veinlets prominulous or plane; umbels probably 3-5 per inflorescence, arranged in abbreviated axillary racemes, the rachis very short, the peduncles stout, about 1.5-2 cm. long, conspicuously bracteate, articulate, and often geniculate 5-10 mm. from the base (the bracts coriaceous, 1-3 mm. long, connate); flowers 8-15 per umbel, the receptacle about 6 mm. broad, the pedicels stout, 3-7 mm. long; flowers 7-9-merous, the calyx cupuliform, 3-4 mm. long and in diameter, the teeth deltoid, short; petals oblong-deltoid, 2.5-3 mm. long, 1-2 mm. broad; filaments short, ligulate, narrowed distally, the anthers globose-oblong, about 1 mm. long; styles connate in a carnose rounded cone; fruit coriaceous, irregularly subglobose, 6-8 mm. in diameter, the styles free and spreading toward the apex.
Type locality: Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. Distribution: Guatemala.