schefflera (redirected from scheffleras)

schef·fler·a  (shf-lîr, -lr, shflr-)

n.

Any of numerous evergreen shrubs or small trees of the genus Schefflera, having palmately compound leaves and unisexual flowers that are grouped in umbels. It is widely grown indoors as a foliage plant. Also called umbrella tree.

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[New Latin Schefflera, genus name, after Jacob Christoph Scheffler (1698-1742), German botanist and physician.]

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Schefflera - large genus of shrubby and climbing tropical plants having showy digitately compound foliage genus Schefflera rosid 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