Plerandra

Plerandra
Plerandra elegantissima is commonly grown as an ornamental plant for its juvenile leaf form
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Apiales
Family:	Araliaceae
Subfamily:	Aralioideae
Genus:	Plerandra A.Gray
Species
See text
Synonyms[1]
Bakeria Seem. Dizygotheca N.E. Br. Octotheca R. Vig.

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.[2]

Species

Species include:[1]

• Plerandra actinostigma (A.C. Sm. & B.C. Stone) G. M. Plunkett, Lowry & Frodin
• Plerandra baillonii (R. Vig.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin
• Plerandra bakeriana (Seem.) A.C. Sm.
• Plerandra brassii Philipson
• Plerandra cabalionii (Lowry) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin
• Plerandra calcicola Lowry & G. M. Plunkett ined.[3]
• Plerandra costata (A.C. Sm.) G. M. Plunkett, Lowry & Frodin
• Plerandra crassipes (Baill.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin
• Plerandra elegantissima (Veitch ex Mast.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin
• Plerandra elongata (Baill.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin
• Plerandra emiliana (Baill.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin
• Plerandra gabriellae (Baill.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin
• Plerandra gordonii Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin ined.
• Plerandra graeffei Dammann
• Plerandra grandiflora A.C. Sm.
• Plerandra grayi Seem.
• Plerandra hogkugu Harms
• Plerandra insolita A.C. Sm.
• Plerandra jatrophifolia Hance
• Plerandra leptophylla (Veitch ex T. Moore) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin
• Plerandra letocartiorum Lowry & G. M. Plunkett ined.[4]
• Plerandra longistyla Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin
• Plerandra mackeei Lowry & G. M. Plunkett ined.
• Plerandra memaoyaensis Lowry & G. M. Plunkett ined.
• Plerandra micrantha Philipson
• Plerandra moratiana Lowry & G. M. Plunkett ined.^[citation needed]
• Plerandra neocaledonica Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin
• Plerandra nono (Baill.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin
• Plerandra osyana (Veitch ex Regel) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin
• Plerandra pachyphylla (Harms) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin
• Plerandra pancheri (Baill.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin
• Plerandra paucidens (Miq.) Baill.
• Plerandra paucidentata Baill.
• Plerandra pickeringii A. Gray
• Plerandra plerandroides (R. Vig.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin
• Plerandra polydactylis (Montr.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin
• Plerandra pouemboutensis Lowry & G. M. Plunkett
• Plerandra reginae (hort. ex W. Richards) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin
• Plerandra seemanniana (A.C. Sm.) G. M. Plunkett, Lowry & Frodin
• Plerandra solomonensis Philipson
• Plerandra stahliana Warb.
• Plerandra tannae (A.C. Sm. & B.C. Stone) G. M. Plunkett, Lowry & Frodin
• Plerandra taomensis Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin ined.
• Plerandra toto Lowry & G. M. Plunkett
• Plerandra tronchetii Lowry & G. M. Plunkett ined.[5]
• Plerandra vanuatua (Lowry) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin
• Plerandra veilloniorum Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin
• Plerandra veitchii (hort. ex Carrière) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin
• Plerandra victoriae Gibbs
• Plerandra vitiensis (Seem.) Baill.

References

1. "Plerandra". Tropicos. Retrieved 2014-03-09.
2. Lowry, P.P., II; Plunkett, G.M.; Frodin, D.G. (2013). "Revision of Plerandra (Araliaceae). I. A synopsis of the genus with an expanded circumscription and a new infrageneric classification". Brittonia. 65 (1): 42–61. Bibcode:2013Britt..65...42L. doi:10.1007/s12228-012-9260-2. S2CID 255561460.
3. IUCN Red List Plerandra sp. nov. "calcicola"
4. IUCN Red List Plerandra sp. nov. "letocartiorum"
5. IUCN Red List Plerandra sp. nov. "tronchetii"