Schefflera hypoleuca (Kurz) Harms

 
  • Family : ARALIACEAE
    (Ginseng Or Aralia Or Ivy Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : DAIN FAMILY
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Araliaceae
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Heptapleurum hypoleucum Kurz
  • Habit : Tree
  • Key identification features : Small-medium, branched trees, with compact crown; bark brown-grey; young parts and inflorescence with deciduous, rusty stellate scurf; Leaves digitate; common petiole with swollen base; leaflets polymorphic, oblong or elliptic-ovate, acute, distantly serrate along margins, base rounded, under surface with deciduous stellate hairs; lateral nerves; Panicles terminal or axillary, subcorymbose, patently branched; bracts shortly ovate, acuminate, brown felted; Flowers greenish White; calyx truncate; petals 5, reflexed, oblong-acute, covered with dense white stellate wool outside; Fruits globose-subglobose, obtusely 5-ribbed, crowned by a cylindrical column.
  • Flower, Fruit : October- April
  • Distribution :
    • Mizoram : Morchra, Phongpui
  • Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar
  • Literature :
    • Singh, N. P., Singh, K. P., & Singh, D. K. (2002). Flora of Mizoram (Vol. 1). Botanical Survey of India. Pg. : 672-673
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Schefflera hypoleuca. Downloaded on 9 October 2024.

India Distribution

World Distribution

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