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(Last Modified On 1/11/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/11/2013)
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Genus
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SCHEFFLERA Forst.
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Char. Gen. 45. 1776, nomen conservandumn.
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Synonym
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Sciodaphyllum P. Br. Hist. jam. 190. 1756, nomen, rejiciendum. Sciadophyllumn Reichenb. Consp. 145. 1828.
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Description
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Shrubs or small trees, sometimes epiphytic, glabrous or variously pubescent. Leaves palmately compound or rarely simple; petiole dilated at the base into a ligulate sheath, often very conspicuous. Inflorescences paniculately umbelliferous or capituliferous, terminal or lateral, the branches subtended by small coriaceous bracts, the umbels or heads numerous; pedicels continuous with the calyx. Flowers bisexual, 5-merous; calyx obconic or cupuliform, the limb short, erect, usually denticulate; petals usually connate and calyptrate, subacute and slightly thickened distally, valvate; stamens inflexed in bud, the anthers oblong, obtuse at both ends, the thecae loosely coherent or separate; disc slightly raised at the margin; styles 5-7; fruit coriaceous, subglobose, surmounted by the persistent calyx-limb and stylar column or styles, the seeds 5-7 or fewer, oblong.
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Habit
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Shrub tree
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Key
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a. Epiphytic shrubs with simple, short-petiolate leaves - - 1. S. EPIPHYTICA aa. Trees, shrubs or epiphytic shrubs with palmately compound, long- petiolate leaves. b. Leaflets 5-9; flowers distinctly pedicellate in 5- to 14-flowered umbels. c. Inflorescences 1- to 3-branched near the base; leaflets 5-9; peti- olules shallowly canaliculate. ---- 2. S. SYSTYLA cc. Inflorescences compound-paniculate; leaflets 5 or 6; petiolules terete, somewhat swollen proximally and distally -3. S. SEIBERTIL bb. Leaflets 8-21; flowers sessile, in 10- to 12-flowered heads (fruit sometimes as few as 5 per head) -4. S. ROBUSTA
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