Herbarium JCB

Schefflera venulosa (Wight & Arn.) Harms

Family : ARALIACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Araliaceae
Species : Schefflera venulosa
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Schefflera venulosa (Wight & Arn.) Harms
Collection Nos : HFP 1616, CJS 13575, CJS 9770
Key identification features : A large woody straggling shrub or a tree. Leaves are palmately compound; leaflets elliptic lanceolate, upto 20cm long, 8 cm wide and prominentely-veined above. Inflorescence is an umbel with flowers crowded more towards the apex.Flowers are 5-merous. Stamens are incurved in the bud. Ovary is inferior and is crowned by a two-lobed disk, styles 2,dilated at the base. Fruit is a schizocarp.
Habit : Shrub
Native : Indo-Malaysia and Tropical Australia.
Comments : Not common
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Chikamagalur, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Dakshina Kannada
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1996; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara