Schefflera nicaraguensis (Standl.) A. C. Sm.

Schefflera nicaraguensis (Standley) A. C. Smith, Trop. Woods 66: 5. 1941.
Sciadophyllum nicaraguense Standley, Jour. Wash. Acad. 17: 316. 1927.
Essentially glabrous shrub, 2-3 m. high, the branchlets stout; petioles stout, terete, striate, about 40 cm. long, the ligule coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, about 8 cm. long; leaflets 4-8, the petiolules stout, 4-13 cm. long, swollen at the base and the apex, the blades thincoriaceous, oblong, 25-40 cm. long, 9.5-16 cm. broad, cuneate to rounded at the base, acuminate at the apex (the acumen about 2 cm. long), entire at the margins, glabrous above, sparsely appressed-pubescent beneath, the costa prominent, the lateral nerves 15-20 per side, spreading, raised on both surfaces; inflorescence fragmentary in our specimen, the branches, peduncles, pedicels, and calyces minutely brown-strigulose, the bracts and bractlets deciduous, the umbels racemosely arranged, the peduncles 5-10 mm. long, the pedicels about 5 per umbel, 2-3 mm. long; flowers 5-merous, the calyx carnose, obconic, about 1 mm. long and 2 mm. in diameter, the limb submembranous, the teeth cuspidate, short, the sinuses flattened; petals and stamens not seen; styles 5, less than 1 mm. long, connate into a carnose cone, free at the apices.
Type locality: Nicaragua (San Juan del Norte). Distribution: Known only from the type locality.