Other images:

• Two leaves and a gone-by inflorescence (mid-May)

Voucher: Kostadinov 136, (URV)

Brief description: A shrub 1-2 m, with the young stems, petioles, and lower leaf surfaces finely stellate. Leaves are maple-like, simple, opposite, shallowly 3-lobed (rarely entire), palmately veined, margins coarsely toothed. Flowers are perfect, white, in 7-rayed cymes on peduncles. Fruits are a purple-black, ellipsoid or subglobose, 1-stoned drupe. 

Campus data: Abundant as undergrowth of Westhampton Forest. Practically absent elsewhere on campus.