Literature for Cheirodendron platyphyllum Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiensis Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Wagner et al., 1990, 1999.
Araliaceae -- The Ginseng Family	Bibliography
Cheirodendron platyphyllum

General Information
Distribution
Habit	Trees 2-10 m tall.
Leaves	Leaflets 3, occasionally 1 caducous, coriaceous, chartaceous when dry, broadly ovate to depressed-ovate or subreniform, 3.5-7(-9) cm long, up to nearly twice as wide, veins raised on upper surface in dried material, margins entire or remotely serrulate, apex rounded, truncate, or occasionally emarginate to acuminate-mucronate, base truncate to broadly obtuse, rarely subcordate, petioles (5-)7-12 cm long, petiolules 2.5-5 cm long, laterally compressed.
Flowers	Inflorescences up to 15 cm long, pedicels 3-6 mm long; ovary (4)5-carpellate; styles (4)5, 1-1.5 mm long, connate into a blunt, cylindrical stylopodium surmounted by the circular stigmas.
Fruit	Fruit globose, weakly, if at all, (4)5-sided (ribbed when dry), 3.5-7.5 mm long (incl. styles).