Schefflera troyana (Urb.) A. C. Sm.

Schefflera troyana (Urban) A. C. Smith, Trop. Woods 66: 5. 1941.
Sciadophvllum Iroyanum Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 451. 1908. Aclinophyllum Iroyanum R. C. Schneid. Bull. Torrey Club 36: 644. 1909.
Small tree, up to 7 m. high, the branchlets stout, brownish, rugose; petioles subterete, up to 40 cm. long, minutely puberulent or glabrous, lenticellate near base, the ligule coriaceous, broadly oblong, 1-2 cm. long; leaflets 6-12, the petiolules deciduously puberulent, up to 9 cm. long, the blades coriaceous, oblong, up to 25 cm. long and 10 cm. broad, rounded or subcordate at the base, acuminate at the apex, slightly recurved at the margins, glabrous above, whitefarinose-puberulent beneath, the costa prominent, the lateral nerves 9-11 per side, often impressed above, raised beneath; inflorescences essentially terminal, 1-3-branched from the base, densely and uniformly appressed-white-tomentose throughout, the branches stout, up to 45 cm. long, the peduncles stout, 5-10 mm. long, the bractlets small, somewhat coalescent, the flowers sessile or short (up to 2 mm.)-pedicellate; calyx coriaceous, obconic, at anthesis 2-3 mm. long, about 4 mm. in diameter, the limb glabrous within, the teeth broadly deltoid, acute, about 0.5 mm. long; bud conic, apiculate, the petals thin-carnose, oblong-deltoid, about 3 mm. long and 1.5 mm. broad, often connate and calyptrate, tomentellose without, glabrous within; filaments carnose, about 1 mm. long, the anthers 1-1.2 mm. long; styles 5, carnose, erect, connate at the base, free dismally, 1-1.5 mm. long, slightly incurved at the apex; young fruit tomentose, the styles spreading.
Type locality: Jamaica. Distribution: Jamaica, 650-900 m.

Sciodaphyllum troyanum is a species of plant in the family Araliaceae. It is a scrambling shrub or tree endemic to Jamaica. It is threatened by habitat loss.