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Wild-maple

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Apiales
Family:	Araliaceae
Subfamily:	Aralioideae
Genus:	Seemannaralia R.Vig.
Species:	S. gerrardii
Binomial name
*Seemannaralia gerrardii* (Seem.) R.Vig.
Synonyms^[1]
Cussonia gerrardii Seem. Panax gerrardii (Seem.) Harv.

Seemannaralia gerrardii, commonly known as the wild-maple or mock carrot tree, is a species of flowering plant in the family Araliaceae. It is the sole member of genus Seemannaralia, and is endemic to South Africa, where it occurs in the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces.^[2] It was originally included in genus Cussonia. Seemann- and gerrardii commemorate Berthold Seemann and William Gerrard respectively, while -aralia suggests the family or its type genus, Aralia.^[3]

Description

A short squat tree of open rocky situations, or a tall tree of forest and forest edge.^[3] The rough grey bark is deeply cracked. As with genus Cussonia the leaves are clustered at the ends of branches. The leaf shape is characteristic: maple-like, palmate and 3 to 7 lobed.^[3] Leaves turn yellow in autumn.

Flowers and fruit

The small, yellowish green flowers are produced in autumn,^[3] in axillary and terminal panicles of umbels.^[4] The oval flower petals have an intricate estivation.^[5] The superior ovary is 1^[6] or 2-locular,^[4] and much compressed laterally.^[5] The purplish drupes appear in winter. They are of a flattened, elliptic shape, with lateral veins.^[3]

Gallery

Panicle of flower umbels
Close-up of two flower umbels

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Seemannaralia.

^ "Seemannaralia gerrardii (Seem.) R.Vig". The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. theplantlist.org. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
^ Foden, W.; Potter, L. (2005). "Seemannaralia gerrardii (Seem.) Harms". Red List of South African Plants version 2017.1. SANBI. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Schmidt, Ernst; Lötter, Mervyn; McCleland, Warren (2002). Trees and shrubs of Mpumalanga and Kruger National Park. Johannesburg: Jacana Media. p. 488. ISBN 9781919777306.
^ ^a ^b "Araliaceae - Seemannaralia R.Vig". Keys to Flora of Southern Africa. SANBI. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
^ ^a ^b Hooker, Joseph Dalton (1884). Cussonia gerrardi, Seem. Hooker's Icones Plantarum. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
^ Takhtajan, Armen (2009). Flowering plants (2nd ed.). Dordrecht: Springer. p. 474. ISBN 9781402096099.

Taxon identifiers
Seemannaralia	Wikidata: Q7445887 Wikispecies: Seemannaralia CoL: 8W3HM EoL: 108761 GBIF: 3036483 GRIN: 11033 iNaturalist: 575580 IPNI: 3104-1 IRMNG: 1050910 NCBI: 257009 Open Tree of Life: 677185 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:3103-1 Tropicos: 40034757 WFO: wfo-4000034944
Seemannaralia gerrardii	Wikidata: Q15560442 Wikispecies: Seemannaralia gerrardii CoL: 6YBPN EoL: 1150219 GBIF: 3036484 iNaturalist: 593977 IPNI: 92558-1 IRMNG: 10803048 IUCN: 208312994 NCBI: 257010 Observation.org: 414289 Open Tree of Life: 103249 Paleobiology Database: 200147 Plant List: kew-190376 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:92559-1 SANBI: 4013-1 Tropicos: 2200634 WFO: wfo-0000309155

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