Not exactly correct.

Hayata described the species as Heptapleurum arboricola with the name
Schefflera arboricola listed as a provsional synonym. In the same
publication Hayata inadvertently illustrated it under the invalid name
Heptapleurum sasakii, probably a slip not corrected by the editor.

Merrill was the one who validly transferred the species to Schefflera.

The genus Brassaia is also now as section of Schefflera.


Schefflera section Brassaia (Endl.) C.Tseng & G.Hoo,
Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica Addit. 1 (1965)


Schefflera arboricola (Hayata) Merrill, Lignan Sci. Journ. 5 (1-2): 139
(1929)

syn. Heptapleurum arboricola Hayata, Icones Plantarum Formosanarum 6: 23
(1916)

___ Schefflera arboricola Hayata, Icones Plantarum Formosanarum 6: 23 (1916)
in syn.

___Heptapleurum sasakii Hayata, Icones Plantarum Formosanarum 6: t.4 (1916)
sphalm.





*********


It would appear that the "False Aralia" is now a Schefflera too!


Schefflera elegantissima (Veitch ex Masters) Lowry & Frodin, Baileya 23 (1):
9 (1989)

syn. Aralia elegantissima Veitch ex Masters, Gard. Chron. 1873: 782 (1873)

___Dizygotheca elegantissima (Veitch) R.Viguier & Guillaumin in Lecomte,
Not. Syst. 2: 258 (1912)



************

Why your plant has gone dormant for the winter is probably for the same
reason most other plants do the same thing.





"Iris Cohen" wrote in message
...
What in the freak is wrong with my address?

I have no idea. Ask AOL. A bonsai lady near Albany suddenly discovered she
can
send e-mail to me as an individual, but not as part of a list. But I am
still
getting those phony proposals from Liberia. Go figure.

Schefflera verses Heptapleurum? Dare I say its a matter of lumpers
verses
splitters?

One of the complications was that Schefflera arboricola Hayata was a nomen
nudum, & had to be straightened out later by somebody named Merrill.
I gather that H., Brassaia, and Dizygotheca have all been shoved back into
Schefflera.
However, doing a search under Schefflera arboricola didn't get me much
more
information, just that it may be somewhat epiphytic, it hates wet feet
(tell me
about it!), and likes full sun.
A search of the species databases tells me the plant comes from Taiwan and
was
originally named in 1916.
None of this really answers the question of why mine is just sitting there
doing absolutely nothing. At least it is not dying, so I assume it will
grow
when the sun comes back.

Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense." - Woody Allen