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Heptapleurum leucanthum (R.Vig.) Y.F.Deng

Araliaceae · China South-Central, China Southeast +3

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Summary

Heptapleurum leucanthum is a species of flowering plant in the family Araliaceae and is native to south-central and southeast China (northwestern Yunnan and southwestern Guangxi), Laos, and Vietnam.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Heptapleurum leucanthum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Heptapleurum

Heptapleurum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araliaceae, the ivy or ginseng family. These plants are native to Southeast Asia: Malesia, Papuasia, southern China, Vietnam, the Indian Subcontinent, Tibet, Hainan, Taiwan, Japan, and Australia. The genus was phylogenetically resurrected from the genus Schefflera in 2020. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Heptapleurum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 98 of the 100 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, China Southeast, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam · introduced: Thailand · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker27.443, 98.82 · in the densest population, 78 records (78% of those in range)
Kew's description“scrambling shrub” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 100 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 64 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 171 km away. 5 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 98 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 8915278 (Schefflera leucantha Vig.): Kew's file holds it as Schefflera leucantha R.Vig. (synonym under Heptapleurum leucanthum (R.Vig.) Y.F.Deng); 127 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 100 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Carlos Otávio Gussoni, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (2).

Other Heptapleurum 17 in the reference

Heptapleurum actinophyllum Heptapleurum actinophyllum Octopus tree Photo: CC BY, Thomas MesaglioHeptapleurum arboricola Heptapleurum arboricola Hawaiian-elf Photo: CC BY, Peter Crowcroft Heptapleurum brevipedicellatum Araliaceae Heptapleurum calyptratum Heptapleurum calyptratum Araliaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz Heptapleurum chapanum Araliaceae Heptapleurum delavayi Heptapleurum delavayi Araliaceae Photo: CC0, DaderotHeptapleurum ellipticum Heptapleurum ellipticum Climbing umbrella tree Photo: CC0, author not stated Heptapleurum emarginatum Araliaceae Heptapleurum fantsipanense Araliaceae Heptapleurum heptaphyllum Heptapleurum heptaphyllum Ivy Tree Photo: CC0, author not stated Heptapleurum hoi Araliaceae Heptapleurum littoreum Araliaceae all 18 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Schefflera kwangsiensis; Schefflera leucantha; Schefflera tamdaoensis; Schefflera tenuis; Schefflera yunnanensis. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Araliaceae
Described by
(R.Vig.) Y.F.Deng
Native to
China South-Central, China Southeast, Laos +2
Wild records
100 in range · 64 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 127 records of GBIF's key 8915278, Schefflera leucantha Vig. (Kew's file holds it as Schefflera leucantha R.Vig. (synonym under Heptapleurum leucanthum (R.Vig.) Y.F.Deng)): GBIF occurrence search API
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 19 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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