Tangan-tangan (Tag.)

A coarse, erect, branched, smooth, somewhat woody shrub. Height: 1 to 4 meters Leaves: Leaves are smooth, alternate, palmately-divided, and 20 to 60 centimeters in width, the lobes oblong and toothed. Flowers: Younger parts are glaucous, and the vegetative parts and inflorescence are green or purplish. Racemes are stout and erect. Male flowers about 1 centimeter in diameter. Calyx is thin, splitting into 3 to 5 segments. Stamens are very numerous, filaments variously connate in branching clusters. Female flowers are calyx spathe-like, caducous. Ovary is 3-celled. Fruits: Fruits are capsules, ovoid, 1 to 1.5 centimeters long, green or purplish and covered with soft spinelike processes.