Compilation
Schefflera acutifoliolata

An often spreading tree to 28 m. tall or an epiphyte; bark rough and fissured or smooth, grey-brown to grey-black and ± corky. Petioles up to 38(–42) cm. long by 5(–6.2) mm. diameter, glabrous or sparsely hairy at tip, rarely puberulous at base; leaflets 5–7, chartaceous to coriaceous, elliptic to broadly elliptic, narrowly ovate to ovate, sometimes somewhat oblong, occasionally narrowly obovate to obovate or oblanceolate, up to 27(–40) cm. long by 15(–20) cm. wide, gradually tapering to a ± truncate short- to long-acuminate or almost caudate apex, with a cordate or rounded, obtuse to cuneate base, with crenulate (rarely subentire) margins, glabrous or puberulous; petiolules up to 12.5 cm. long by 1–3 mm. diameter. Stipules upto 1.7 cm. long. Inflorescence an umbel or a short raceme of up to 12 racemes of pedunculate umbellules; primary branches up to 41 cm. long, often not floriferous at base, arising in axils of tomentose to puberulous bracts of up to 1.5 cm. long (this relationship obscured when primary branches umbellate); peduncles of umbellules (secondary branches) (0.6–)1.3–2.1(–4.5) cm. long, arising in the axils of glabrous to puberulous ovate to ligulate bracts of from 1.5–6(–8) mm. long racemosely borne along the primaries; pedicels up to about 36 per peduncle, often less, 2–11 mm. long; floral bracts obsolete. Fruits vinaceous, urceolate to subspherical, up to 5 mm. long and across, sulcate, glabrous or puberulous; stylopodium 0.5–0.7 mm. long; styles 5–8, free for 0.6–1.0 mm. terminally.