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Genus: Schefflera
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Order: Apiales > Family: Araliaceae
About 200
species, native to Africa, Madagascar, the Far East and New Zealand. There
is 1 species native to southern Africa,
Schefflera umbellifera.
Schefflera umbellifera, Kirstenbosch
Botanical Gardens, Cape Town [photo
H. Robertson, Iziko ©]. |
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