Schefflera rodriguesiana Frodin

Bosque muy húmedo y de robles, márgenes de páramos, bosques secundarios, áreas alteradas.

Distribucion en Costa Rica: En ambas vertientes, en todas las cordilleras y fajas montañosas del país, en elevaciones de (1.100-)1.800 a 3.200 m.
Distribucion General: Costa Rica y Panamá.

Árbol o arbusto.

Árbol o arbusto de 3 a 10 m de altura, tallos glabros. Hojas palmadamente compuestas, con 5 a 8(-10) folíolos, de 5-18 por 4-12 cm, ovados, ovado-elípticos a elípticos, acuminados apicalmente, glabros, lígula de 4 a 6 cm de largo, pecíolo de 13 a 40 cm de largo. Inflorescencias en paniculadas, brácteas de (2-)7 a 22 mm de largo, pedicelos de 4 a 5 mm de largo, cabezas con 6 a 22 flores, pétalos caliptrados, de 2 ó 3 estilos. Frutos de 3,5-4 por 3,5-4 mm, subglobosos a levemente aplanados, los estilos formando un estilopodio conoide.

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Didymopanax pittieri Marchal ; Durand & Pittier, Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 30 1 : 280. 1891.
Tree, up to 20 m. high, glabrous throughout, the branchlets stout, terete; leaves and inflorescences at the apices of branchlets; petioles terete, often striate, 10-35 cm. long, the sheath 10-20 mm. broad, the ligule 15-30 mm. long; leaflets 5-9, the petiolules slender, up to 1 cm. long, somewhat swollen and jointed at the base, the blades thin-coriaceous, broadly ovate, 7-14 cm. long, 5-9 cm. broad, obtuse to rounded at the base, acuminate at the apex (the acumen 1-3 cm. long), thickened and slightly undulate at the margins, the costa often prominent, the secondary nerves spreading, slightly raised on both surfaces; inflorescence paniculate, the rachis stout, often short, the branches few, straight, spreading, up to 35 cm. long, each subtended by an oblong bract 1-2 cm. long; umbels racemosely arranged, the peduncles straight, 15-30 mm. long, subtended by oblong bracts 3-16 mm. long, the pedicels 7-20 per umbel, up to 6 mm. long; calyx soft-carnose, obconic, at anthesis about 1 mm. long and 2 mm. broad, the teeth callose-apiculate, the sinuses flattened; buds apiculate, the petals deltoidovate, about 1.5 mm. long and 1 mm. broad, calyptrate; filaments very short, the anthers oblong-globose, less than 1 mm. long; stylar column carnose, short-conic, the styles 2 or 3; fruit coriaceous, subglobose, 2.5-4 mm. in diameter, the styles united nearly to the apex, the stigmas minutely divaricate, the ovary-wall hard, the seeds 2 or 3.
Type locality: Costa Rica.
Distribution: Costa Rica and western Panama, 1500-2500 m.

Schefflera rodriguesiana là một loài thực vật có hoa trong Họ Cuồng cuồng. Loài này được Frodin miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1989.