Schefflera delavayi (Franch.) Harms

This species is used medicinally.

Trees, to 8 m tall, hermaphroditic. Petiole (10-)15-60 cm; petiolules 1-15 cm; leaflets (4 or)5, elliptic to ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 8-30(-35) × 3-12 cm, papery to leathery, abaxially densely gray-white or yellow-brown stellate tomentose, adaxially glabrous, secondary veins 7-13 pairs, tertiary veins indistinct, base acute to obtuse or rounded, margin entire to sparsely and irregularly dentate (incised or usually pinnately lobed in young plants), apex abruptly acute to acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, a panicle of spikes, gray-white tomentose; primary axis 25-80 cm; secondary axes to ca. 30 cm. Flowers sessile. Calyx tomentose, distinctly 5-toothed. Ovary 5-carpellate; styles united into a column. Fruit globose, 3.5-4 mm in diam., 5-ribbed when dry; styles ca. 2 mm; pedicels to ca. 1 mm. Fl. Oct-Nov, fr. Jan. 2n = 48.

Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan [Vietnam].

Evergreen broad-leaved forests, wet forest margins, and as scattered trees in valleys or on stream banks; 600-3000 m.

Heptapleurum delavayi Franchet, J. Bot. (Morot) 10: 307. 1896; Agalma delavayi (Franchet) Hutchinson; A. discolor (Merrill) Hutchinson; H. dunnianum H. Léveillé; Schefflera delavayi var. ochrascens Handel-Mazzetti; S. discolor Merrill; S. megalobotrya Harms.

Schefflera delavayi là một loài thực vật có hoa trong Họ Cuồng cuồng. Loài này được (Franch.) Harms miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1900.

穗序鹅掌柴（学名：Schefflera delavayi）是五加科鹅掌柴属的植物，为中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的福建、云南、四川、贵州、广西、广东、湖北、江西等地，生长于海拔600米至3,100米的地区，一般生长在阴湿的林缘、山谷溪边的常绿阔叶林中和疏林，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。