# Plerandra

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{{Short description|Genus of plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Schefflera elegantissima.jpg
|image_caption = ''[Plerandra elegantissima](/source/Plerandra_elegantissima)''<br /> is commonly grown as an ornamental plant for its juvenile leaf form
|taxon = Plerandra
|authority = [A.Gray](/source/Asa_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](/source/genus) of [flowering plant](/source/flowering_plant)s in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Araliaceae](/source/Araliaceae) that has long been considered a synonym of ''[Schefflera](/source/Schefflera)'', which has been a [polyphyletic](/source/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](/source/Plerandra_actinostigma)'' <small>(A.C. Sm. & B.C. Stone) G. M. Plunkett, Lowry & Frodin</small>
* ''[Plerandra baillonii](/source/Plerandra_baillonii)'' <small>(R. Vig.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small>
* ''[Plerandra bakeriana](/source/Plerandra_bakeriana)'' <small>(Seem.) A.C. Sm.</small>
* ''[Plerandra brassii](/source/Plerandra_brassii)'' <small>Philipson</small>
* ''[Plerandra cabalionii](/source/Plerandra_cabalionii)'' <small>(Lowry) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small>
* ''[Plerandra calcicola](/source/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](/source/Plerandra_costata)'' <small>(A.C. Sm.) G. M. Plunkett, Lowry & Frodin</small>
* ''[Plerandra crassipes](/source/Plerandra_crassipes)'' <small>(Baill.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small>
* ''[Plerandra elegantissima](/source/Plerandra_elegantissima)'' <small>(Veitch ex Mast.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small>
* ''[Plerandra elongata](/source/Plerandra_elongata)'' <small>(Baill.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small>
* ''[Plerandra emiliana](/source/Plerandra_emiliana)'' <small>(Baill.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small>
* ''[Plerandra gabriellae](/source/Plerandra_gabriellae)'' <small>(Baill.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small>
* ''[Plerandra gordonii](/source/Plerandra_gordonii)'' <small>Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin ined.</small>
* ''[Plerandra graeffei](/source/Plerandra_graeffei)'' <small>Dammann</small>
* ''[Plerandra grandiflora](/source/Plerandra_grandiflora)'' <small>A.C. Sm.</small>
* ''[Plerandra grayi](/source/Plerandra_grayi)'' <small>Seem.</small>
* ''[Plerandra hogkugu](/source/Plerandra_hogkugu)'' <small>Harms</small>
* ''[Plerandra insolita](/source/Plerandra_insolita)'' <small>A.C. Sm.</small>
* ''[Plerandra jatrophifolia](/source/Plerandra_jatrophifolia)'' <small>Hance</small>
* ''[Plerandra leptophylla](/source/Plerandra_leptophylla)'' <small>(Veitch ex T. Moore) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small>
* ''[Plerandra letocartiorum](/source/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](/source/Plerandra_longistyla)'' <small>Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small>
* ''[Plerandra mackeei](/source/Plerandra_mackeei)'' <small>Lowry & G. M. Plunkett ined.</small>
* ''[Plerandra memaoyaensis](/source/Plerandra_memaoyaensis)'' <small>Lowry & G. M. Plunkett ined.</small>
* ''[Plerandra micrantha](/source/Plerandra_micrantha)'' <small>Philipson</small>
* ''[Plerandra moratiana](/source/Plerandra_moratiana)'' <small>Lowry & G. M. Plunkett ined.</small>{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}
* ''[Plerandra neocaledonica](/source/Plerandra_neocaledonica)'' <small>Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small>
* ''[Plerandra nono](/source/Plerandra_nono)'' <small>(Baill.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small>
* ''[Plerandra osyana](/source/Plerandra_osyana)'' <small>(Veitch ex Regel) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small>
* ''[Plerandra pachyphylla](/source/Plerandra_pachyphylla)'' <small>(Harms) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small>
* ''[Plerandra pancheri](/source/Plerandra_pancheri)'' <small>(Baill.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small>
* ''[Plerandra paucidens](/source/Plerandra_paucidens)'' <small>(Miq.) Baill.</small>
* ''[Plerandra paucidentata](/source/Plerandra_paucidentata)'' <small>Baill.</small>
* ''[Plerandra pickeringii](/source/Plerandra_pickeringii)'' <small>A. Gray</small>
* ''[Plerandra plerandroides](/source/Plerandra_plerandroides)'' <small>(R. Vig.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small>
* ''[Plerandra polydactylis](/source/Plerandra_polydactylis)'' <small>(Montr.) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small>
* ''[Plerandra pouemboutensis](/source/Plerandra_pouemboutensis)'' <small>Lowry & G. M. Plunkett</small>
* ''[Plerandra reginae](/source/Plerandra_reginae)'' <small>(hort. ex W. Richards) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small>
* ''[Plerandra seemanniana](/source/Plerandra_seemanniana)'' <small>(A.C. Sm.) G. M. Plunkett, Lowry & Frodin</small>
* ''[Plerandra solomonensis](/source/Plerandra_solomonensis)'' <small>Philipson</small>
* ''[Plerandra stahliana](/source/Plerandra_stahliana)'' <small>Warb.</small>
* ''[Plerandra tannae](/source/Plerandra_tannae)'' <small>(A.C. Sm. & B.C. Stone) G. M. Plunkett, Lowry & Frodin</small>
* ''[Plerandra taomensis](/source/Plerandra_taomensis)'' <small>Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin ined.</small>
* ''[Plerandra toto](/source/Plerandra_toto)'' <small>Lowry & G. M. Plunkett</small>
* ''[Plerandra tronchetii](/source/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](/source/Plerandra_vanuatua)'' <small>(Lowry) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small>
* ''[Plerandra veilloniorum](/source/Plerandra_veilloniorum)'' <small>Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small>
* ''[Plerandra veitchii](/source/Plerandra_veitchii)'' <small>(hort. ex Carrière) Lowry, G. M. Plunkett & Frodin</small>
* ''[Plerandra victoriae](/source/Plerandra_victoriae)'' <small>Gibbs</small>
* ''[Plerandra vitiensis](/source/Plerandra_vitiensis)'' <small>(Seem.) Baill.</small>

==References==
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