Family: Araliaceae

Description: 

Shrubs, or small evergreen trees, growing to 6 m tall. Leaves alternate, usually trifoliate; leaflets 5-20 cm diameter, orbicular or reni-form, base cordate, margin indented or crenate, green with white patches at times; petioles 5-20 cm long. Inflorescences terminal, erect, 30-80 cm long, panicle-like. Flowers ca 6 mm diameter, greenish in umbels; terminal umbels are bisexuals and the lateral ones males, of about 6 mm of diameter.