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Polyscias lallanii R.Kr.Singh & Sanjeet Kumar

Araliaceae · Hawaii · listed by its genus as a tropical foliage plant

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No habitat climate
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Summary

Polyscias racemosa, or false 'ohe, is a species of flowering plant in the family Araliaceae. As Munroidendron racemosum, the species was until recently considered to be the only species in the monotypic genus Munroidendron. With the change in classification, Munroidendron is now obsolete. Polyscias racemosa is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Kauai. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Polyscias racemosa", CC BY-SA 4.0; its title is one of this species' older names (GBIF Backbone), which is the proof that the article is this species'.

About the genus · Polyscias

Polyscias is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araliaceae with a natural distribution from tropical Africa through Southeast Asia and Australia to islands of the Pacific. As of February 2026, Plants of the World Online recognises 28 synonyms and about 180 species for the genus.

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

Cultivation

Grouped as a tropical foliage plant, listed under the genus Polyscias in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “tree”, “wet tropical”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Polyscias in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “tree”, “wet tropical”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 4 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 4 of the 4 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.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 6069268 (Polyscias racemosa (C.N.Forbes) Lowry & G.M.Plunkett, 7 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeHawaii · 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 marker22.167, -159.633 · in the densest population, 4 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 4 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 4 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 6069268 (Polyscias racemosa (C.N.Forbes) Lowry & G.M.Plunkett): Kew's file holds it as Polyscias racemosa (C.N.Forbes) Lowry & G.M.Plunkett (illegitimate under Polyscias lallanii R.Kr.Singh & Sanjeet Kumar); 7 records, from GBIF's download.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 4 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not a statement that none exist.

Other Polyscias 18 in the reference

Polyscias balfouriana Polyscias balfouriana Balfour Aralia Photo: CC BY-SA, Ong Jyh SengPolyscias crenata Polyscias crenata Araliaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, vanessa_147Polyscias cumingiana Polyscias cumingiana Fern-leaf aralia Photo: CC BY-SA, MokkiePolyscias cutispongia Polyscias cutispongia Araliaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, YoliPolyscias elegans Polyscias elegans Mowbulan whitewood Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg TasneyPolyscias filicifolia Polyscias filicifolia Araliaceae Photo: CC BY, Forest & Kim StarrPolyscias fruticosa Polyscias fruticosa Ming aralia Photo: CC BY, Diogo LuizPolyscias fulva Polyscias fulva Araliaceae Photo: CC BY, jeanjacquesgodonPolyscias guilfoylei Polyscias guilfoylei Geranium aralia Photo: CC BY, Tara SevernsPolyscias hawaiensis Polyscias hawaiensis Hawai'i 'ohe Photo: Public domain, DaderotPolyscias maraisiana Polyscias maraisiana Araliaceae Photo: CC BY, Matthew MorganPolyscias murrayi Polyscias murrayi Pencil Cedar Photo: CC BY, Max Campbell all 19 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Tetraplasandra racemosa; Polyscias racemosa; Munroidendron racemosum; Munroidendron racemosum var. forbesii; Polyscias munroi and 1 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Araliaceae
Described by
R.Kr.Singh & Sanjeet Kumar
Native to
Hawaii
Wild records
4 in range · 4 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
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Polyscias lallanii R.Kr.Singh & Sanjeet Kumar (plant_name_id 3317633), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 7 records of GBIF's key 6069268, Polyscias racemosa (C.N.Forbes) Lowry & G.M.Plunkett (Kew's file holds it as Polyscias racemosa (C.N.Forbes) Lowry & G.M.Plunkett (illegitimate under Polyscias lallanii R.Kr.Singh & Sanjeet Kumar)): the GBIF download; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-224 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 77340277-1, POWO 77340277-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia redirects Polyscias lallanii to Polyscias racemosa, an older name of this species (Polyscias racemosa)
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
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 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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