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Schefflera / ˈ ʃ ɛ f l ər ə / [1] is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araliaceae with 13 species native to New Zealand and some Pacific islands. [2]The genus is named in honor of Johann Peter Ernst von Scheffler [], physician and botanist of Gdańsk, and later of Warsaw, who contributed plants to Gottfried Reyger [] for Reyger's book, Tentamen Florae Gedanensis.
Schefflera faguetii Baill. Plerandra elegantissima (formerly called Schefflera elegantissima and Dizygotheca elegantissima ), the false aralia , is a species of flowering plant in the family Araliaceae, native to New Caledonia .
Fruits. It is an evergreen shrub growing to 8–9 m tall, free-standing, or clinging to the trunks of other trees as an epiphyte.The leaves are palmately compound, with 7–9 leaflets, the leaflets 9–20 cm long and 4–10 cm broad (though often smaller in cultivation) with a wedge-shaped base, entire margin, and an obtuse or acute apex, sometimes emarginate.
This is a short perennial plant growing 4–15 in (100–380 mm) long. Leaves are yellowish-green with brighter yellow bracts. Upper plant has a gland that produces a sticky substance, hence both the common names Glandular and Sticky Paintbrush.
Roridula (/ r ɒ ˈ r ɪ dj ʊ l ə /; from Latin roridus "dewy") is a genus of evergreen, insect-trapping shrubs, with two species, of about 1⅓–2 m (4–6⅔ ft).It is the only genus in the family Roridulaceae.
The hydathode structures discharge water—a phenomenon called guttation through openings in margins or tips of leaves. The water flows through the xylem to its endings in the leaf and then through the intercellular spaces of the hydathode tissue toward the openings in the epidermis. Strictly speaking, such hydathodes are not glands because ...
Heptapleurum actinophyllum (formerly Schefflera actinophylla) is a tree in the family Araliaceae. [1] [2] It is native to tropical rainforests and gallery forests in northern and northeastern Queensland coasts and the Northern Territory of Australia, as well as New Guinea and Java.
Schefflera pueckleri (K.Koch) Frodin (1989) Sciodaphyllum pulchellum Griff. (1843), nom. nud. ... It has palmate leaves with 7-12 leaflets growing in a whorled ...