Schefflera zhuana Lowry & C.B.Shang

Species

Angiosperms > Apiales > Araliaceae > Schefflera

Characteristics

Trees, to ca. 20 m tall, hermaphroditic. Petiole 3.5-18.5 cm; petiolules (0.5-)1.5-8 cm, slender; leaflets (4 or)5, elliptic to slightly ovate, 5.5-20.5 × 2.6-7.5 cm, both surfaces glabrous, secondary veins 6-8 pairs, tertiary veins raised on both surfaces, prominent, base rounded to broadly acute, margin entire, revolute, minutely thickened, apex acuminate. Inflorescence a terminal (rarely lateral) panicle of umbels, densely light gray stellate; primary axis 1-6 cm; secondary axes 5.5-8 cm; pedicels 1-2 mm. Calyx a narrow rim. Ovary (7 or)8 or 9-carpellate; stigmas (7 or)8 or 9, sessile. Fruit globose to slightly ovoid, 3.5-4 mm in diam., (7 or)8-or 9-ribbed when dry, conspicuously red-orange glandular punctate; disk weakly concave, slightly undulate. Fl. Dec-Jan, Apr, fr. Apr-May.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 20.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
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Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color
Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
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Usage

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Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 20 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 23
Germination luminosity light
Germination treatment -
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Distribution

Schefflera zhuana world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77077608-1
WFO ID wfo-0000810152
COL ID 4V7DC
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Schefflera zhuana