Polyscias aemiliguineae
| Polyscias aemiliguineae | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Apiales |
| Family: | Araliaceae |
| Genus: | Polyscias |
| Species: | P. aemiliguineae |
| Binomial name | |
| Polyscias aemiliguineae Bernardi | |
Polyscias aemiliguineae is a species of plant in the Araliaceae family. 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 .
Sources
- Strahm, W. 1998. Polyscias aemiliguineae. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 August 2007.