Biology:Polyscias aemiliguineae
Polyscias aemiliguineae | |
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Polyscias aemiliguineae | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Apiales |
Family: | Araliaceae |
Genus: | Polyscias |
Species: | P. aemiliguineae
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Binomial name | |
Polyscias aemiliguineae Bernardi
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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
- ↑ Strahm, W. (1998). "Polyscias aemiliguineae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998: e.T32692A9718319. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T32692A9718319.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/32692/9718319. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
Wikidata ☰ Q3011653 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyscias aemiliguineae.
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