| Dicotyledon | Literature for Schefflera actinophylla
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Araliaceae -- The Ginseng Family | Bibliography |
| Schefflera actinophylla | |
Common name(s): umbrella tree, octopus tree |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Native to Australia and New Guinea, widely cultivated outdoors as an ornamental in other tropical areas and indoors in many temperate regions.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Trees, occasionally epiphytic, 10-15 m tall. |
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| Leaves |
Leaflets 5-18, subcoriaceous, elliptic to obovate, the largest ones 15-30 cm long, apex caudate-acuminate to rounded or emarginate, petioles (20-)35-60 cm long, stipules caudate, 5-10 cm long. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers perfect, sessile, 8-12 in heads, these numerous on stiff spreading branches 40-80 cm long, inflorescence bright pinkish red throughout, paniculate, peduncles 5-15 mm long; ovary 8-30-carpellate; styles connate to form a truncate, conical stylopodium; stigmas sessile, forming a ring. |
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| Fruit |
Fruit a drupe, dark purple to black at maturity, concrescent in subglobose multiple fruits.
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 24, 48 |
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