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Heptapleurum
Sign in to saveHeptapleurum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araliaceae, the ivy or ginseng family. These plants are native to Southeast Asia: Malesia, Papuasia, southern China, Vietnam, the Indian Subcontinent, Tibet, Hainan, Taiwan, Japan, and Australia. The genus was phylogenetically resurrected from the genus Schefflera in 2020. It is the largest genus of Araliaceae with 321 accepted species .
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Vinony's link graph records 73 inbound references to Heptapleurum, and connects out to IUCN Red List, plant and Wikidata.
It sits within the topics Apiales genera, Araliaceae and Heptapleurum.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 58
- With media
- 52
- Family
- Araliaceae
- Collections
- BRIT, CAS, CDA, NY, MO
- Recorded in
- Philippines, United States, India, Vietnam
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Araliaceae
- Image
- Schefflera taiwaniana - Flickr - peganum.jpg
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- taxon name
- Heptapleurum
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon common name
- 鹅掌柴属
- Commons category
- Heptapleurum
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Encyclopedic overview
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Heptapleurum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araliaceae, the ivy or ginseng family. These plants are native to Southeast Asia: Malesia, Papuasia, southern China, Vietnam, the Indian Subcontinent, Tibet, Hainan, Taiwan, Japan, and Australia. The genus was phylogenetically resurrected from the genus Schefflera in 2020. It is the largest genus of Araliaceae with 321 accepted species .
Heptapleurum includes species commonly grown as houseplants or garden ornamentals (such as Heptapleurum arboricola). Some species are threatened, endangered, or critically endangered by deforestative habitat loss and extreme endemism, such as Heptapleurum acuminatissimum, which is known only from a single location with an estimated extent of occurrence of only .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Heptapleurum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.