Polyscias elegans at Wyrrabalong National Park, Australia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Clade:
Angiosperms
Clade:
Eudicots
Clade:
Asterids
Order:
Apiales
Family:
Araliaceae
Genus:
Polyscias
Species:
P. elegans
Binomial name
Polyscias elegans
(C.Moore & F.Muell.) Harms[1][2]
Synonyms
Panax elegans C.Moore & F.Muell.[3]
Tieghemopanax elegans (C. Moore & F. Muell.) R.Viguier.[4]
Polyscias elegans at Norah Head, AustraliaDrawing by Margaret Flockton
Polyscias elegans, known as the celery wood, is a rainforest tree of eastern Australia. It occurs in a variety of different rainforest types, from fertile basaltic soils, to sand dunes and less fertile sedimentary soils. The range of natural distribution is from Jervis Bay (35° S) in southern New South Wales to Thursday Island (10° S), north of the Australian continent. Other common names include black pencil cedar and silver basswood. Polyscias elegans is useful to bush regenerators as a nursery tree, which provides shade for longer-lived young trees underneath. Polyscias elegans is also known as Celery wood, Mowbulan whitewood, Silver basswood and White sycamore.[5]
^Harms Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(8): 45 1894
^"Polyscias elegans (C.Moore & F.Muell.) Harms'". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
^C. Moore & F. Muell. Trans. Philos. Inst. Victoria 2: 68 1858
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