Vasilis Teodoridis:
Araliaceae | Schefflera
1. Schefflera delavayi (Franchet) Harms; Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 29: 486. 1900.
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Heptapleurum delavayi Franchet; J. Bot. (Morot) 10: 307. 1896; Agalma delavayi (Franchet) Hutchinson; A. discolor (Merrill) Hutchinson; H. dunnianum H. Léveillé; Schefflera delavayi var. ochrascens Handel-Mazzetti; S. discolor Merrill; S. megalobotrya Harms.
Trees; to 8 m tall; hermaphroditic. Petiole (10-)15-60 cm; petiolules 1-15 cm; leaflets (4 or)5; elliptic to ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate; 8-30(-35) x 3-12 cm; papery to leathery; abaxially densely gray-white or yellow-brown stellate tomentose; adaxially glabrous; secondary veins 7-13 pairs; tertiary veins indistinct; base acute to obtuse or rounded; margin entire to sparsely and irregularly dentate (incised or usually pinnately lobed in young plants); apex abruptly acute to acuminate. Inflorescence terminal; a panicle of spikes; gray-white tomentose; primary axis 25-80 cm; secondary axes to ca. 30 cm. Flowers sessile. Calyx tomentose; distinctly 5-toothed. Ovary 5-carpellate; styles united into a column. Fruit globose; 3.5-4 mm in diam.; 5-ribbed when dry; styles ca. 2 mm; pedicels to ca. 1 mm. Fl. Oct-Nov; fr. Jan. 2n = 48.
Evergreen broad-leaved forests; wet forest margins; and as scattered trees in valleys or on stream banks; 600-3000 m. Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangxi; Sichuan; Yunnan [Vietnam].
This species is used medicinally.
Markéta Teodoridu:
Araliaceae | Schefflera
1. Schefflera delavayi (Franchet) Harms; Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 29: 486. 1900.
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Heptapleurum delavayi Franchet; J. Bot. (Morot) 10: 307. 1896; Agalma delavayi (Franchet) Hutchinson; A. discolor (Merrill) Hutchinson; H. dunnianum H. Léveillé; Schefflera delavayi var. ochrascens Handel-Mazzetti; S. discolor Merrill; S. megalobotrya Harms.
Trees; to 8 m tall; hermaphroditic. Petiole (10-)15-60 cm; petiolules 1-15 cm; leaflets (4 or)5; elliptic to ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate; 8-30(-35) x 3-12 cm; papery to leathery; abaxially densely gray-white or yellow-brown stellate tomentose; adaxially glabrous; secondary veins 7-13 pairs; tertiary veins indistinct; base acute to obtuse or rounded; margin entire to sparsely and irregularly dentate (incised or usually pinnately lobed in young plants); apex abruptly acute to acuminate. Inflorescence terminal; a panicle of spikes; gray-white tomentose; primary axis 25-80 cm; secondary axes to ca. 30 cm. Flowers sessile. Calyx tomentose; distinctly 5-toothed. Ovary 5-carpellate; styles united into a column. Fruit globose; 3.5-4 mm in diam.; 5-ribbed when dry; styles ca. 2 mm; pedicels to ca. 1 mm. Fl. Oct-Nov; fr. Jan. 2n = 48.
Evergreen broad-leaved forests; wet forest margins; and as scattered trees in valleys or on stream banks; 600-3000 m. Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangxi; Sichuan; Yunnan [Vietnam].