Neocussonia umbellifera | |
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From "The Forests and Forest Flora of The Colony of the Cape of Good Hope" by Thomas Robertson Sim (1858-1938) | |
Habit of Neocussonia umbellifera (Bart Wursten) | |
Conservation status
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Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Apiales |
Family: | Araliaceae |
Genus: | Neocussonia |
Species: | N. umbellifera
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Binomial name | |
Neocussonia umbellifera (Sond.) Hutch (1967)[2]
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Synonyms[2] | |
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Neocussonia umbellifera is an evergreen to semi-deciduous Southern African tree of 15-20m growing in escarpment and coastal forest in Malawi, through eastern Zimbabwe and Mozambique along the east coast to South Africa, as far south as the Garden Route. It belongs to the Araliaceae or Cabbage Tree family, and was formerly placed in the genus Schefflera, created by J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. in 1776 to honour the 18th century German physician and botanist Johann Peter Ernst von Scheffler (born in 1739) of Danzig, and not to be confused with writer and physician Jacob Christoph Scheffler (1698-1745) of Altdorf bei Nürnberg.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
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