| Noun | 1. | genus Schefflera - large genus of shrubby and climbing tropical plants having showy digitately compound foliagerosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants Araliaceae, family Araliaceae, ivy family - mostly tropical trees and shrubs and lianas: genera Panax and Hedera Brassaia actinophylla, Schefflera actinophylla, umbrella tree - erect evergreen shrub or small tree of Australia and northern New Guinea having palmately compound leaves |