Snowflake aralia (Trevesia sundaica)

Snowflake aralia (Trevesia sundaica) is a species of plant in the Araliaceae, a medium to large tree with a single trunk, woody, brown, straight, slender, cylindrical in shape with rows of large sharp, dense spines, growing solitary in the rainforest.

T. sundaica has large leaves and clusters at the tip of the upper stem of the stem. The stalk is long and cylindrical, horizontal, spreading and dark brown in color. The strands face up, are finger-shaped in a circle and are dark green in color.

Flowers in panicles with long stalks, branched and brown. Star-shaped flowers at the end of the stalk and woody. The crown is white and in the shape of a wheel. Fallen crowns will leave blunt skeletons.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Apiales
Family: Araliaceae
Subfamily: Aralioideae
Genus: Trevesia Vis. in Giorn. Tosc. Sci. Med. 1: 72 (1840)
Species: Trevesia sundaica Miq. in Bonplandia (Hannover) 4: 137 (1856)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Brassaia palmata (Blume) Decne. & Planch. in Rev. Hort. (Paris), sér. 4, 3: 106 (1854)
Gastonia sundaica (Miq.) Baill. in Hist. Pl. 7: 161 (1879)
Sciodaphyllum palmatum Blume in Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 875 (1826)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Actinophyllum palmatum Blume ex Boerl. in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg 6: 111 (1887)
Aralia palmata Hibberd in New Rare Beautiful-leaved Pl.: 143 (1870)
Aralia palmata Reinw. ex de Vriese in Pl. Ind. Bat. Orient.: 82 (1857)
Aralia reinwardtiana Steud. ex Seem. in J. Bot. 6: 138 (1868)
Trevesia sundaica var. glomerata Koord. & Valeton in Meded. Lands Plantentuin 42: 5 (1900)

PUBLICATIONS

Aung, Y.L., Aung, M.H., Tan, Y. & Jin, X. (2025). An updated checklist of vascular plants of Myanmar. PhytoKeys 261: 135-364.

Frodin, D.G. & Govaerts, R. (2003 publ. 2004). World Checklist and Bibliography of Araliaceae: 1-444. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

VERNACULAR NAME

Aceh: ôn kipah
Bali: Emburang
Batak: Bulung ni kipas
English: Snowflake aralia, Emburang
Indonesia: Emburang, Katesan, Daun kipas, Kepingan salju
Java: Emburang, Katesan, Godhong kipas
Minang: Daun kipeh

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