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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.
Heptapleurum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araliaceae, native to the Indian Subcontinent, Tibet, southern China, Hainan, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Malesia, Papuasia, Japan, and Australia. [1] It was resurrected from Schefflera in 2020. [2] It is currently the largest genus of Araliaceae [2] with 321 accepted species. [1]
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.
In cultivation, it needs a lot of light and humidity. The soil should dry out between watering. This plant has little branching and is sensitive to the appearance of mealybugs. Under the name Schefflera elegantissima, this plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. [4] [5]
This species was first described as Sciodaphyllum ellipticum in 1826 by the Dutch botanist Carl Ludwig Blume, based on material collected near Mount Salak, Indonesia. [7] In 1865 it was transferred to the genus Heptapleurum by Berthold Carl Seemann, [8] then to Schefflera by Hermann Harms in 1894, [9] where it remained for more than a century.
Heptapleurum taiwanianum (syn. Schefflera taiwaniana, 台湾鹅掌柴) [3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Araliaceae, native to Taiwan, where it is scattered throughout coniferous forests at 2,000–3,000 m (6,600–9,800 ft). [3] Growing to 4 m (13 ft) tall by 2.5 m (8.2 ft) broad, it is an evergreen shrub or small tree.
Heptapleurum digitatum (synonym Schefflera roxburghii), is a species of plant in the family Araliaceae. It is native to India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Myanmar. [2] The Latin specific epithet roxburghii refers to the Scottish Botanist William Roxburgh. [3]
Schefflera tenuis H.L.Li (1942) Schefflera yunnanensis H.L.Li (1942) Heptapleurum leucanthum is a species of flowering plant in the family Araliaceae and is native to south-central and southeast China (northwestern Yunnan and southwestern Guangxi), Laos, and Vietnam.