Tetrapanax ( )

1 species naturalized Aust.; NSW

*Tetrapanax papyrifer (Hook.f.) K.Koch

Shrub up to 4 m high. Leaves ovate to broad-ovate in outline, up to 27 cm long and 25 cm wide, palmately 7–9-lobed, dentate, stellato-pubescent, paler underneath; each lobe itself often lobed. Flowers in umbels arranged in racemes. Petals 4. Stamens 4. Styles 2 distinct, slender. Naturalized in a few places in the Illawarra district. Fl. spring–summer. Rice-paper Plant