Raukaua laetevirens

Species of tree

Raukaua laetevirens

Raukaua laetevirens (juvenile)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Asterids
Order:  | Apiales
Family:  | Araliaceae
Genus:  | Raukaua
Species:  |

R. laetevirens

Binomial name
Raukaua laetevirens

(Gay) Frodin

Synonyms

Pseudopanax laetevirens

Raukaua laetevirens, known as traumen and sauco del diablo (devil's elder), is a species of plant in the family Araliaceae native to Chile and adjacent parts of Argentina. It occurs from Maule (35°50'S) to Punta Arenas (53°S). It grows in rainforests and near water courses.

## Description[edit]

It is an evergreen tree or shrub with ash-coloured bark, measuring up to 6 m (20 ft) in height. The leaves are composite, alternate, the petioles are 2–8 cm long, thickened at the base, the leaves are digitate, with uneven leaflets, light green glossy in color, leathery, oblong-lanceolate, attenuate at both ends, toothed edges 3-8 long and 1-1,6 wide, the flowers are hermaphrodite, pedicellate, clustered in 2-5 in inflorescences with many racemes, the flowers are formed by a floral tube 1.5 mm long, the calyx is split in 5 tepals and 5 thick whitish-green ovate-lanceolate sepals, with a mucro 2 mm at the acute apex, 5 stamens with whitish anthers, loculate inferous ovary 3-5, 4-5 styles, the fruit is a brown spherical drupe 5-5.5 mm in diameter, crowned by two styles.

## External links[edit]

* "Raukaua laetevirens". Enciclopedia de la Flora Chilena. Retrieved 2010-04-07.

Taxon identifiers

Raukaua laetevirens|

* Wikidata: Q5638320
* Wikispecies: Raukaua laetevirens
* CoL: 4RM9G
* EoL: 1151141
* GBIF: 3037281
* iNaturalist: 855433
* IPNI: 60427848-2
* IRMNG: 11291208
* IUCN: 131406991
* NCBI: 140589
* Open Tree of Life: 619935
* Plant List: kew-176789
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60427848-2
* Tropicos: 50254617
* WFO: wfo-0000294978

Aralia laetevirens|

* Wikidata: Q38477173
* CoL: 5W2BB
* GBIF: 3037288
* IPNI: 89684-1
* IRMNG: 10500217
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:89684-1
* Tropicos: 2201021
* WFO: wfo-0000257915