Polyscias aemiliguineae

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Polyscias aemiliguineae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Apiales
Family: Araliaceae
Genus: Polyscias
Species:
P. aemiliguineae
Binomial name
Polyscias aemiliguineae
Bernardi

Polyscias aemiliguineae is a species of plant in the family Araliaceae. It is endemic to Réunion.

It is a shrub or tree, evergreen, hermaphroditic, andromonoecious or dioecious, unarmed, often glabrous, some with sharply aromatic herbage . Leaves 1-5-pinnately compound, margins entire to crenate or serrate; stipules sometimes intrapetiolar and adnate to inside of petiole or absent. Inflorescence a terminal panicle of umbels, heads or spikes, sometimes with a terminal umbel of bisexual flowers and 1 to several lateral umbels of male flowers. Pedicel articulate below ovary. Calyx undulate or with 4 or 5(-8 or more) small lobes . Petals 4 or 5(-8 or more), valvate . Stamens as many as petals. Ovary 4 or 5(-8 or more) carpellate ; styles free or rarely connate at base . Fruit a drupe, terete or laterally flattened. Seeds compressed, endosperm smooth .

References[edit]

  1. ^ Strahm, W. (1998). "Polyscias aemiliguineae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1998: e.T32692A9718319. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T32692A9718319.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.