Oreopanax geminatus Marchal

Oreopanax geminatus Marchal, Bull. Acad. Belg
11.47:91. 1879.
Tree, about 5 m. high, the leaves lobed (according to Oersted); hermaphrodite inflorescences copiously branched, the branches, bracts, and peduncles densely ferruginous-stellatetomentose, the heads globose, 12-15 mm. in diameter, arranged in sessile pairs on stout peduncles 10-15 mm. long, the bractlets ovate, small, densely tomentose, the bracteoles thincoriaceous, oblong-spatulate, about 3 mm. long, copiously and persistently bright-ferruginoustomentose without, the tomentum 2-3 mm. long; fruits coriaceous, oblong or obovoid-oblong, 6-7 mm. long, the styles 2 or 3, spreading, free to the base, recurved, about 2 mm. long, soon deciduous, the seeds often only 1.
Type locality: Segovia, northern Nicaragua. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Oreopanax lachnocephalus Standley, Cam. Inst. Wash Publ. 461:77. 1935.
Tree, up to 20 m. high, the trunk about 30 cm. in diameter, the branchlets stout, terete, brownish, ferruginous-tomentellose when young, at length glabrous; leaves simple, the petiole terete, striate, up to 20 cm. long or more, densely stellate-tomentellose, at length glabrous, the blade coriaceous, suborbicular in outline, up to 30 cm. in diameter, cordate at the base, 5or 7-lobed about to the middle, the sinuses rounded, the lobes oblong, acuminate, entire at the margins, the upper surface glabrous (or sparsely pilose on the principal nerves), the lower surface densely ferruginous-stellate-tomentellose (the hairs 4-6-branched, stalked), the primary nerves prominent on both surfaces, the secondary nerves short, spreading, the veinlets copiously reticulate; inflorescence up to 25 cm. long and broad, the branches, peduncles, and bracts densely ferruginous-stellate-tomentellose, the bracts ovate, 4-6 mm. long, the heads single, racemosely arranged on the branches of the inflorescence, the peduncles stout, 10-17 mm. long, the hermaphrodite heads globose or slightly ovoid, 13-17 mm. in diameter, the bracteoles numerous, oblongor linear-spatulate, 2-3 mm. long, copiously and persistently brightferruginoustomentose without, the tomentum 2-3 mm. long; staminate flowers mixed with the hermaphrodite flowers, completely hidden by the bractlets, the calyx small, the limb truncate or minutely dentate; petals deltoid-oblong, 1-1.5 mm. long, densely and persistently ferruginous-tomentellose without, the hairs forming a compact mass; filaments very short, the anthers oblong, less than 1 mm. long; style single, short, deciduous; fruits numerous, coriaceous, oblong-ellipsoid, 5-7 mm. long, the styles 2, separate to the base, 1-2 mm. long, soon deciduous, the seeds 2 (or 1).
Type locality: British Honduras.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality, 600 m.