Yuquilla

Didymopanax gleasonii Britton & Wilson, Sci. Surv Porto Rico 6: 365. 1926.
Leafy shrub up to 2 m. high, glabrous throughout at maturity except the flowers, the branchlets brownish, rugose; petioles 6-12 cm. long, slightly dilated at the base, the ligule coriaceous, about 2 mm. long; leaflets 3-7, the petiolules 5-10 mm. long, narrowly winged above, the blades coriaceous, oblong or obovate-oblong, 4-8 cm. long, 1.2-2.5 cm. broad, attenuate at the base, rounded or emarginate at the apex, slightly recurved at the margins, the costa prominent on both surfaces, the lateral nerves obscure; inflorescences axillary or clustered at the apices of branchlets, compound-umbellate, the primary peduncle 5-12 cm. long, the branches spreading, up to 5 cm. long, the bracts inconspicuous, the pedicels 10-15 per umbel, at anthesis up to 3 mm. long and minutely canescent-sericeous, at length about 10 mm. long and glabrescent; calyx coriaceous, obconic, 1-1.5 mm. long, about 2 mm. broad, minutely canescent-sericeous, the teeth deltoid, callose-tipped, minutely fimbriate; bud conic, 5-ribbed, the petals deltoid, 1-1.5 mm. long and broad, minutely sericeous or glabrous without; filaments filiform, tapering distally, about 1 mm. long, the anthers deltoid-oblong, about 1.5 mm. long, obtuse, the locules separate; summit of the ovary flattened, the styles about 1 mm. long, free distally; mature fruit black, canescent-sericeous or glabrous, flattened-subglobose, 6-8 mm. long and broad, the stylar column 1-2 mm. long, the styles separate and recurved about half their length.
Type locality: Puerto Rico.
Distribution: Puerto Rico, at about 1300 m.