Taxon: Schefflera arboricola (Hayata) Merr.

Common names:

• dwarf umbrella-tree   (Source: Orn Pl Guian ) – English
  
• Hawaiian-elf   (Source: Orn Pl Guian ) – English
  
• miniature schefflera   (Source: Orn Pl Guian ) – English
  
• e zhang teng   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• cheflera   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide F ChinaEng)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Hainan
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China) [erroneously S. arboricola (Hayata) Hayata].
• DeFilipps, R. A. 1992. Ornamental garden plants of the Guianas. (Orn Pl Guian)
• Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin. 2004. World checklist and bibliography of Araliaceae. (L Araliaceae)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard) [erroneously S. arboricola (Hayata) Hayata].
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan. (F Taiwan) [erroneously S. arboricola (Hayata) Kanehira].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Schefflera arboricola.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Schefflera arboricola. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Heptapleurum arboricola Hayata (basionym)
  

Check other databases for Schefflera arboricola (Hayata) Merr.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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