Dendropanax gonatopodus (Donn. Sm.) A. C. Sm.

Dendropanax gonatopodus (Donn. Smith) A. C. Smith, Trop. Woods 66: 3. 1941.
Giliberlia gonalopoda Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 55: 434. 1913.
Slender tree, up to 13 m. high, the branchlets stout, rugose, cinereous; petioles slender, up to 12 cm. long, swollen at the base and the apex; leaf-blades chartaceous or thin-coriaceous, broadly elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 1 1-30 cm. long, 5-18 cm. broad, acute to rounded at the base, obtusely short-acuminate at the apex, entire or undulate at the margins, pinnately veined, the costa prominent, the secondary nerves 8-10 per side, straight, spreading, raised on both surfaces, the veinlets reticulate, often prominulous; umbels 10-16 per inflorescence, arranged in terminal or lateral racemes; rachis stout, 2-5.5 cm. long, the peduncles stout, divaricate, 2-6 cm. long, conspicuously bracteate, articulate, and usually geniculate slightly below the middle (the bracts coriaceous, about 1 mm. long, connate); flowers 20-50 per umbel, the receptacle 4-6 mm. broad, the pedicels slender, 2-12 nun. long; flowers 5-merous, the calyx obconic, about 2 mm. long and 1.5 mm. broad; petals oblong, 1.5-2 mm. long, 1-1.5 mm. broad; filaments carnose, 1-2 mm. long, the anthers subglobose-oblong, small; styles connate, free distally, forming a carnose column about 0.5 mm. long; fruit coriaceous, subglobose, 3-4 mm. in diameter, the styles free and recurved in the distal half; seeds 5.
Type locality: Costa Rica.
Distribution: Costa Rica and western Panama, up to 1400 m.

Dendropanax gonatopodus là một loài thực vật có hoa trong Họ Cuồng cuồng. Loài này được (Donn.Sm.) A.C.Sm. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1941.