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Polyscias
Sign in to savePolyscias is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araliaceae with a natural distribution from tropical Africa through Southeast Asia and Australia to islands of the Pacific. , Plants of the World Online recognises 28 synonyms and about 180 species for the genus.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderApiales
- FamilyAraliaceae
General: Species of Polyscias can be found in primary and secondary
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2,137
- With media
- 1,675
- Family
- Araliaceae
- Collections
- CICY, NY, MO, CAS, BPBM, US
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States, Vanuatu, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Cambodia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Aralioideae
- Image
- Polyscias.jpg
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- Commons category
- Polyscias
- topic's main category
- Category:Polyscias
- taxon name
- Polyscias
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon common name
- 福禄桐属
- Flora of the Hawaiian Islands URL
- naturalhistory2.si.edu/botany/hawaiianflora/genusdescr.cfm?genus=Polyscias
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Description
- Taxonomy
- Etymology
- Cultivation
- Selected species
- Endangered and critically endangered species
- References
- External links
Polyscias is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araliaceae with a natural distribution from tropical Africa through Southeast Asia and Australia to islands of the Pacific. , Plants of the World Online recognises 28 synonyms and about 180 species for the genus.
==Description== They are shrubs, trees or (rarely) lianes, which are mostly evergreen or occasionally deciduous. The leaves are alternate and have a membraneous or winged sheathing base of the petioles. Stipules are either absent or vestigial. Leaf morphology is varied: they may be undivided or pinnate, bipinnate or tripinnate, and the margins may be entire, toothed or lobed.
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