Dendropanax laurifolius (Marchal ex Urb.) R. C. Schneid.

Dendropanax laurifolius (Marchal) R. C. Schneid. Bull. Torrey
Club 36: 644. 1909. Not D. laurifolius Dec. & Planch.
1854 (nomen nudum).
Giliberlia laurifolia Marchal; Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 203. 1899.
Slender tree, 5-10 m. high, the branchlets subterete, cinereous, rugose; petioles straight, up to 12 cm. long, often swollen at the base and the apex; leaf-blades coriaceous, oblong or obovate-oblong, 7-22 cm. long, 3-12 cm. broad, attenuate to broadly cuneate at the base, short-acuminate or cuspidate at the apex, entire or undulate or crenate-denticulate at the margins, 3-nerved from the base (the marginal nerves inconspicuous), the costa prominent beneath, the secondary nerves spreading, with the reticulate veinlets prominulous on both surfaces; umbels 5-11 per inflorescence, arranged in terminal or axillary crowded racemes; rachis very stout, 5-15 mm. long, the peduncles stout, divaricate, 10-40 mm. long, conspicuously bracteate, articulate, and often geniculate near the middle (the bracts coriaceous, ovate, 1-2 mm. long, connate); flowers 5-merous, 15-40 per umbel, the receptacle about 5 mm. broad, the pedicels 3-6 mm. long; calyx carnose, obconic, 1.5-2 mm. long and broad, the teeth small, broadly deltoid, apiculate, often fimbriate; petals oblong, about 2 mm. long and 1 mm. broad; filaments carnose, about 2 mm. long, the anthers about 1 mm. long; styles connate at the base, free above; fruits subglobose, 3-6 mm. in diameter, the stylar column about 1 mm. long, the seeds 5.
Type locality: Puerto Rico. Distribution: Puerto Rico, up to 950 m.

Dendropanax laurifolius is a tree in the family Araliaceae. It is endemic to Puerto Rico, and is found in moist regions of forests at middle or high elevations.

Dendropanax laurifolius là một loài thực vật có hoa trong Họ Cuồng cuồng. Loài này được (Marchal ex Urb.) R.C.Schneid. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1909.