5852.000 Schefflera J.R. Forst. & G. Forst.

DIZYGOTHECA N.E. Br.

PLERANDRA A. Gray

Bailey, L.H. & Bailey, E.Z. (1976) Hortus Third. A concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada Macmillan Publishing Co, Inc., New York

Description of the genus

Trees, shrubs or lianes. Leaves digitate with long petioles. Inflorescence of compound umbels, arranged in a raceme or panicle. Petals and sepals 5-10, equal in number. Styles 2 (umbellifera) or 5-8 (goetzenii). Fruit subspherical to ovoid.

Derivation of name: after Johann Peter Ernst Scheffler, an 18th century Polish botanist and physician born in 1739.

Worldwide: c. 650 species in tropical and warm regions

Mozambique: 2 taxa.

Schefflera umbellifera

Links to taxa:     View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
goetzenii HarmsN,Z,MSDescription, Image
umbellifera (Sond.) Baill.Z,MSDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Schefflera:

Our websites:

Flora of Malawi: Schefflera
Flora of Zambia: Schefflera
Flora of Zimbabwe: Schefflera
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Schefflera

External websites:

ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Schefflera
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Schefflera
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Schefflera
Wikipedia: Schefflera
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Schefflera
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Schefflera

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-23

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2023). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Schefflera.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1030, retrieved 2 April 2023

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