Present on Pacific Islands?  yes

Primarily a threat at high elevations?  no

Risk assessment results:  Evaluate, score: 4 (Go to the risk assessment)

Other Latin names:  Heptapleurum octophyllum (Lour.) Benth. ex Hance; Paratropia cantoniensis Hook. & Arn.; Schefflera atrifoliata R.H. Miao; Schefflera octophylla (Lour.) Harms; Schefflera rubriflora C.J. Tseng & C. Ho; Vitis heptaphylla L.

Common name(s): [more details]

Chinese: e zhang chai

Japanese: fuka-no-ki

Habit:  tree

Description:  "Trees, to 15 m tall, andromonoecious. Petiole (5-) 10-30 cm; petiolules 1.5-5 cm; leaflets 6-9 (-11), elliptic to oblong-elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 7-18 x 3-5 cm, papery to leathery, densely stellate pubescent when young, glabrescent except on midvein and in axils of veins, secondary veins 7-10 pairs, tertiary veins inconspicuous, base attenuate or cuneate to obtuse or rounded, margin entire, often serrate or pinnately lobed on young plants, apex abruptly acute to acuminate. Inflorescence a terminal panicle of umbels, densely stellate tomentose, glabrescent; primary axis to 35 cm; secondary axes 25 (-35) cm, with a terminal umbel of bisexual flowers and several to many lateral umbels of bisexual or more often male flowers, usually also with 1 to several bisexual flowers borne just below apical umbel; pedicels 4-5 mm. Calyx pubescent at first, entire or 5- or 6-toothed. Ovary 5-9 (or 10)-carpellate; styles united into a thick column less than 1.5 mm. Fruit globose, ca. 5 mm in diameter, inconspicuously angled when dry; styles persistent, to ca. 1.5 mm"  (Flora of China online).

Habitat/ecology:  In China (native), "evergreen broad-leaved forests on mountain slopes; 100-2100 m"  (Flora of China online).

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  "India, China, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam"  (Flora of China online).

Presence:

Pacific
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
State of Hawaii Hawaiian Islands	O‘ahu Island	introduced invasive cultivated	Imada, Clyde T./Staples, George W./Herbst, Derral R. (2011) Voucher cited: Herbst 9604 (BISH) "This species escapes all over the garden and is becoming weedy".
State of Hawaii Hawaiian Islands	O‘ahu Island	introduced invasive cultivated	Frohlich, Danielle/Lau, Alex (2012) (pp. 28-29) Vouchers cited: D. Herbst 9604 (BISH), C. Daehler 1202 (BISH), OED 2011102701 (BISH)
State of Hawaii Hawaiian Islands	O‘ahu Island		Bishop Museum (U.S.A. Hawaii. Honolulu.) (1992) (voucher ID: BISH 627916) Taxon name on voucher: Schefflera heptaphylla (L.) Frodin

Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
China China	China (People's Republic of)	native	Zhengyi, Wu/Raven, Peter H./Deyuan, Hong (2011)
Japan Japan	Japan (country)	native	Zhengyi, Wu/Raven, Peter H./Deyuan, Hong (2011)
Japan Ryukyu Islands	Ryukyu Islands	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011)
Thailand Thailand	Thailand (Kingdom of)	native	Zhengyi, Wu/Raven, Peter H./Deyuan, Hong (2011)
Vietnam Vietnam	Vietnam (Socialist Republic of)	native	Zhengyi, Wu/Raven, Peter H./Deyuan, Hong (2011)

Additional information:
Information sheet from the Agroforestry Database (PDF format).

Additional online information about Schefflera heptaphylla is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).

Information about Schefflera heptaphylla as a weed (worldwide references) may be available from the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).

Taxonomic information about Schefflera heptaphylla may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

References:

Bishop Museum (U.S.A. Hawaii. Honolulu.). 1992. Voucher specimen #BISH627916(Herbst, D.R. 9604).

Frohlich, Danielle/Lau, Alex. 2012. New plant records for the Hawaiian Islands 2010-2011. In: Evenhuis, Neal L. and Eldredge, Lucius G., eds. Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2011. Part II: Plants. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. 113:27-54.

Imada, Clyde T./Staples, George W./Herbst, Derral R. 2011. Annotated Checklist of Cultivated Plants of Hawai‘i (online searchable database).

U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. 2011. National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Online searchable database.

Zhengyi, Wu/Raven, Peter H./Deyuan, Hong. 2011. Flora of China (online resource).