Mildella

...In a broad sense, it is a general term for about 80 species found mainly in the New World, Oceania, Africa, etc., and many of them are cultivated as ornamental plants. In a narrow sense, it refers to P. henryi Christ from Taiwan, but in recent years this species has been included in the separate genus Mildella , so the approximately 80 species referred to here are sometimes called Perlaea, reading the scientific name of the genus as it is. In the broad sense, Perlaea usually has dark brown, glossy petioles, is unipinnate to bipinnately compound, and is small and cute. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Mildella" is listed below.

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…広い意味では，新大陸，オセアニア，アフリカなどを中心に産する約80種のものの総称で，観葉植物として栽培されるものが多い。狭義では台湾産のP.henryi Christを指すが，本種は近年は別属のMildellaに含められるので，ここでいう約80種は，属の学名をそのまま読んでペルラエアと呼ばれることもある。広義のペルラエアには，葉柄が通常暗褐色で光沢があり，単羽状から2～3回羽状複生，小型で愛らしいものが多い。…

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