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Plerandra

{{Short description|Genus of plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Schefflera elegantissima.jpg

|image_caption = Plerandra elegantissima
is commonly grown as an ornamental plant for its juvenile leaf form

|taxon = Plerandra

|authority = A.Gray

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision = See text

|synonyms =

  • Bakeria Seem.
  • Dizygotheca N.E. Br.
  • Octotheca R. Vig.

|synonyms_ref = {{cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40011498?%20projectid=39 |work=Tropicos |title=Plerandra |accessdate=2014-03-09}}

}}

Plerandra is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araliaceae that has long been considered a synonym of Schefflera, which has been a polyphyletic group.{{cite journal |author1=Lowry, P.P., II |author2=Plunkett, G.M. |author3=Frodin, D.G. |year=2013 |title=Revision of Plerandra (Araliaceae). I. A synopsis of the genus with an expanded circumscription and a new infrageneric classification |journal=Brittonia |volume=65 |issue=1 |pages=42–61 |doi=10.1007/s12228-012-9260-2|bibcode=2013Britt..65...42L |s2cid=255561460 }}

Species

Species include:

References

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Category:Apiales genera

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