{{Short description|Genus of plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Schefflera elegantissima.jpg |image_caption = ''Plerandra elegantissima''<br /> is commonly grown as an ornamental plant for its juvenile leaf form |taxon = Plerandra |authority = A.Gray |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = See text |synonyms = *''Bakeria'' <small>Seem.</small> *''Dizygotheca'' <small>N.E. Br.</small> *''Octotheca'' <small>R. Vig.</small> |synonyms_ref = <ref name=Tropicos>{{cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40011498?%20projectid=39 |work=Tropicos |title=''Plerandra'' |accessdate=2014-03-09}}</ref> }}
'''''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.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Lowry, P.P., II |author2=Plunkett, G.M. |author3=Frodin, D.G. |year=2013 |title=Revision of ''Plerandra'' (Araliaceae). I. A synopsis of the genus with an expanded circumscription and a new infrageneric classification |journal=Brittonia |volume=65 |issue=1 |pages=42–61 |doi=10.1007/s12228-012-9260-2|bibcode=2013Britt..65...42L |s2cid=255561460 }}</ref>
==Species== Species include:<ref name=Tropicos/> * ''Plerandra actinostigma'' <small>(A.C. Sm. & B.C. Stone) G. M. Plunkett, Lowry & Frodin</small> * ''Plerandra baillonii'' <small>(R. Vig.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small> * ''Plerandra bakeriana'' <small>(Seem.) A.C. Sm.</small> * ''Plerandra brassii'' <small>Philipson</small> * ''Plerandra cabalionii'' <small>(Lowry) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small> * ''Plerandra calcicola'' <small>Lowry & G. M. Plunkett ined.</small><ref>[http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/68084719/0 IUCN Red List ''Plerandra sp. nov.'' "calcicola"]</ref> * ''Plerandra costata'' <small>(A.C. Sm.) G. M. Plunkett, Lowry & Frodin</small> * ''Plerandra crassipes'' <small>(Baill.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small> * ''Plerandra elegantissima'' <small>(Veitch ex Mast.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small> * ''Plerandra elongata'' <small>(Baill.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small> * ''Plerandra emiliana'' <small>(Baill.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small> * ''Plerandra gabriellae'' <small>(Baill.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small> * ''Plerandra gordonii'' <small>Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin ined.</small> * ''Plerandra graeffei'' <small>Dammann</small> * ''Plerandra grandiflora'' <small>A.C. Sm.</small> * ''Plerandra grayi'' <small>Seem.</small> * ''Plerandra hogkugu'' <small>Harms</small> * ''Plerandra insolita'' <small>A.C. Sm.</small> * ''Plerandra jatrophifolia'' <small>Hance</small> * ''Plerandra leptophylla'' <small>(Veitch ex T. Moore) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small> * ''Plerandra letocartiorum'' <small>Lowry & G. M. Plunkett ined.</small><ref>[http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/68085948/0 IUCN Red List ''Plerandra sp. nov.'' "letocartiorum"]</ref> * ''Plerandra longistyla'' <small>Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small> * ''Plerandra mackeei'' <small>Lowry & G. M. Plunkett ined.</small> * ''Plerandra memaoyaensis'' <small>Lowry & G. M. Plunkett ined.</small> * ''Plerandra micrantha'' <small>Philipson</small> * ''Plerandra moratiana'' <small>Lowry & G. M. Plunkett ined.</small>{{citation needed|date=January 2017}} * ''Plerandra neocaledonica'' <small>Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small> * ''Plerandra nono'' <small>(Baill.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small> * ''Plerandra osyana'' <small>(Veitch ex Regel) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small> * ''Plerandra pachyphylla'' <small>(Harms) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small> * ''Plerandra pancheri'' <small>(Baill.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small> * ''Plerandra paucidens'' <small>(Miq.) Baill.</small> * ''Plerandra paucidentata'' <small>Baill.</small> * ''Plerandra pickeringii'' <small>A. Gray</small> * ''Plerandra plerandroides'' <small>(R. Vig.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small> * ''Plerandra polydactylis'' <small>(Montr.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small> * ''Plerandra pouemboutensis'' <small>Lowry & G. M. Plunkett</small> * ''Plerandra reginae'' <small>(hort. ex W. Richards) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small> * ''Plerandra seemanniana'' <small>(A.C. Sm.) G. M. Plunkett, Lowry & Frodin</small> * ''Plerandra solomonensis'' <small>Philipson</small> * ''Plerandra stahliana'' <small>Warb.</small> * ''Plerandra tannae'' <small>(A.C. Sm. & B.C. Stone) G. M. Plunkett, Lowry & Frodin</small> * ''Plerandra taomensis'' <small>Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin ined.</small> * ''Plerandra toto'' <small>Lowry & G. M. Plunkett</small> * ''Plerandra tronchetii'' <small>Lowry & G. M. Plunkett ined.</small><ref>[http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/68086707/0 IUCN Red List ''Plerandra sp. nov.'' "tronchetii"]</ref> * ''Plerandra vanuatua'' <small>(Lowry) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small> * ''Plerandra veilloniorum'' <small>Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small> * ''Plerandra veitchii'' <small>(hort. ex Carrière) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small> * ''Plerandra victoriae'' <small>Gibbs</small> * ''Plerandra vitiensis'' <small>(Seem.) Baill.</small>
==References== {{Reflist}}
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