Small deciduous tree, frequently a shrub, polygamous, up to 8(15) m in height. Regular in shape, with globose crown. Trunk generally well defined, straight, sometimes slightly tortuous, with greyish-brown bark, fissured-scaly. Young trunks and branches with smooth bark, greyish or greyish-brown. Young branchlets flexuous, greenish-brown or reddish-brown. Leaves 1.5-4.5 \u00d7 2-6.3 cm, opposite, palmate, trilobed, occasionally 5-lobed, with 2 small basal lobes, coriaceous; glabrous, green, lustrous on the upper side and with hairs only on the vein axils on the underside, glaucous, matt. Lobes well defined, equal or subequal, ovate, with generally an entire margin, sometimes with small and few teeth, obtuse, rarely acute, with sinuses reaching halfway of the leaf, forming a right or slightly acute angle. Petiole long, widening at the base, glabrous or with scarce hairs. Inflorescence corymbiform, straight at first and then progressively pendulous, sparsely hairy. Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual (male), greenish-yellowish, on long peduncles. Calyx with 5 sepals, free. Corolla with 5 petals, arranged alternately with sepals, fused to a fleshy disk, like the stamens. Stamens 8, exserted in male flowers. Fruit a paired samara, with glabrous seminiferous area, with wings tapered at the base, straight or curved inwards (converging), sometimes overlapping, forming an acute angle of 20-60\u00ba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-13185","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n