Polyscias aemiliguineae

{{Short description|Species of shrub}}

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| image = Polyscias aemiliguineae 06.jpg

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| status = CR

| status_system = IUCN2.3

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Strahm, W. |date=1998 |title=Polyscias aemiliguineae |volume=1998 |page=e.T32692A9718319 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T32692A9718319.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}

| genus = Polyscias

| species = aemiliguineae

| authority = Bernardi

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Polyscias aemiliguineae is a species of plant in the family Araliaceae. It is endemic to Réunion.

It is a shrub or tree, evergreen, hermaphroditic, andromonoecious or dioecious, unarmed, often glabrous, some with sharply aromatic herbage . Leaves 1-5-pinnately compound, margins entire to crenate or serrate; stipules sometimes intrapetiolar and adnate to inside of petiole or absent. Inflorescence a terminal panicle of umbels, heads or spikes, sometimes with a terminal umbel of bisexual flowers and 1 to several lateral umbels of male flowers. Pedicel articulate below ovary. Calyx undulate or with 4 or 5(-8 or more) small lobes . Petals 4 or 5(-8 or more), valvate . Stamens as many as petals. Ovary 4 or 5(-8 or more) carpellate ; styles free or rarely connate at base . Fruit a drupe, terete or laterally flattened. Seeds compressed, endosperm smooth .

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