Schefflera epiphytica A. C. Sm.

Schefflera epiphytica A. C. Smith, Ann. Mo. Bot Gard. 28:437. 1941.
Epiphytic shrub 1.5-2 m. high, glabrous throughout except for the inflorescence, the branchlets stout, striate; leaves simple, the petiole stout, 7-15 mm. long, broadly winged below, distally lightly canaliculate, toward the middle conspicuously ligulate, the ligule coriaceous, oblong-linear, up to 2.5 cm. long, persistent; leaf -blades chartaceous, elliptic-oblong, 18-25 cm. long, 9-12 cm. broad, subcordate or rounded at the base, abruptly acuminate at the apex (the acumen acute, up to 1 cm. long), entire at the margins, the costa prominent, the secondary nerves 10-16 per side, spreading, curved toward the margins, raised on both surfaces, the veinlet-reticulation prominulous; inflorescence compound-paniculate, the rachis and branches slender, puberulent, soon glabrescent, the peduncle essentially lacking, the rachis 2-4 cm. long, the branches few, 15-35 cm. long, subtended by chartaceous oblong bracts 1.5-3 cm. long, the peduncles numerous, slender, up to 9 mm. long at anthesis and 15 mm. long in fruit, puberulent, soon glabrescent; flowers 5-merous, 3-8 per umbel, the pedicels slender, 3-6 mm. long; calyx obconic, 1-1.5 mm. long and slightly broader, the limb obscurely apiculate; petals glabrous, membranous, connate into a semiglobose umbonate calyptra 2-2.5 mm. in diameter; filaments slender, 0.4-0.7 mm. long, the anthers about 1.5 mm. long; styles 5, connate into a carnose column, minutely free at the apices; fruit subglobose, up to 3.5 mm. in diameter, conspicuously 5-costate, surmounted by the disk and stylar column.
Type locality: Panama (Code).
Distribution; Panama, known only from the type locality, about 1000 m.

Schefflera epiphytica là một loài thực vật có hoa trong Họ Cuồng cuồng. Loài này được A.C.Sm. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1941.