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Schefflera
Sign in to saveSchefflera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araliaceae with 13 species native to New Zealand and some Pacific islands.
Species
Miniature umbrella tree
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderApiales
- FamilyAraliaceae
Native toFiji, New Caledonia, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Samoa, Vanuatu
Observations25,447
Observations recorded26,384
General: Schefflera species can be found in many different habitats
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 3,957
- With media
- 3,037
- Family
- Araliaceae
- Collections
- NY, IBUNAM, MICH, US, F, A
- Recorded in
- Vanuatu, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, Honduras, Guyana, Peru
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Species
- Fossil record
- See also
- References
Schefflera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araliaceae with 13 species native to New Zealand and some Pacific islands.
The genus is named in honor of , physician and botanist of Gdańsk, and later of Warsaw, who contributed plants to for Reyger's book, Tentamen Florae Gedanensis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Schefflera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.