Schefflera
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
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Family
Araliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Genus Description - Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, palmately compound, with stout, long petioles and stipular appendage at axil; leaflets from petiole. Flowers pedicellate, unisexual or bisexual, regular, arranged in umbels along large, axillary panicles; calyx obconic or cup-shaped, sometimes with 5 apical teeth; petals valvate, sometimes connate forming a calyptra; nectary disk annular; stamens 5; styles 2-7, free. Fruit with fleshy exocarp, 5-10-ribbed, with persistent disk and styles at apex; seeds laterally compressed.