Taxonomie
Lowry II, P., Plunkett, G., Mora, M., Cano, A., Fiaschi, P., Frodin, D., Gereau, R., Idárraga-Piedrahíta, Á., Jiménez-Montoya, J., Mendoza, J., Neill, D., Rivera-Diaz, O. & Rodrigues-Vaz, C. 2019. Studies in Neotropical Araliaceae. I. Resurrection of the genus Sciodaphyllum P. Browne to accommodate most New World species previously included in Schefflera J. R. Forst. & G. Forst. Brittonia, 72(1): 1-15.

 

Source de la synonymie (de Actinophyllum Ruiz & Pav., 1794)
Lowry II, P., Plunkett, G., Mora, M., Cano, A., Fiaschi, P., Frodin, D., Gereau, R., Idárraga-Piedrahíta, Á., Jiménez-Montoya, J., Mendoza, J., Neill, D., Rivera-Diaz, O. & Rodrigues-Vaz, C. 2019. Studies in Neotropical Araliaceae. I. Resurrection of the genus Sciodaphyllum P. Browne to accommodate most New World species previously included in Schefflera J. R. Forst. & G. Forst. Brittonia, 72(1): 1-15. [CD_REF = 957577] Sciodaphyllum P.Browne, 1756

 

Source de la synonymie (de Cotylanthes Calest., 1905 [nom. inval.])
Lowry II, P., Plunkett, G., Mora, M., Cano, A., Fiaschi, P., Frodin, D., Gereau, R., Idárraga-Piedrahíta, Á., Jiménez-Montoya, J., Mendoza, J., Neill, D., Rivera-Diaz, O. & Rodrigues-Vaz, C. 2019. Studies in Neotropical Araliaceae. I. Resurrection of the genus Sciodaphyllum P. Browne to accommodate most New World species previously included in Schefflera J. R. Forst. & G. Forst. Brittonia, 72(1): 1-15. [CD_REF = 957577] Sciodaphyllum P.Browne, 1756

 

Taxonomie : A genus of 131 currently recognized species and more than 200 new species that remain to be described, more than 50 of which are currently being prepared for publication (see Mora et al., in press). Sciodaphyllum is restricted to the Neotropics, where it ranges from Nicaragua to Bolivia and is also present in the Lesser Antilles, with members occurring in a wide range of humid or seasonally moist habitats, from sea level to nearly 3500 m elevation.