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

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

Comment: In a recent revision the formerly broadly described genus Schefflera was split. This genus is now restricted to species in New Zealand and the Southwest Pacific only. Zambian species formerly included in Schefflera are now in Astropanax.

Worldwide: 13 species in New Zealand to Southwest Pacific.

Zambia: 0 taxa.

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Schefflera
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