WorldFloraDB - Aralia

Characteristics

Trees, small, or shrubs, prickly, or unarmed, rhizomatous herbs, andromonoecious or hermaphroditic. Leaves 1-3-pinnately compound, rachis articulate; leaflets 3-20, entire to serrate, serrulate, crenate, or undulate; stipules connate with petioles at base. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, paniculate, corymbose or umbellate, usually consisting of umbels, capitula, or racemes, occasionally umbels solitary. Pedicels articulate below ovary. Calyx rim 5-dentate. Petals 5, imbricate. Stamens 5. Ovary 5(or 6)-carpellate, occasionally aborted to 3; styles 5, distinct or connate at base. Fruit a berry, ± globose, sometimes 3-5-angular. Seeds laterally compressed; endosperm uniform.

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Sparingly branched shrubs or small trees, or climbing, rarely (extra-Mal.) herbaceous, glabrous or hairy, often prickly. Leaves pinnate to tripinnate, usually with leaflets at the insertion of the lateral pinnae; leaflets serrate; petiole with a sheathing base. Inflorescence a terminal panicle; flowers sessile or pedicelled, with an articulation below the flower; calyx with 5-6 teeth; petals 5-6, imbricate; ovary 2-6-celled; styles 2-6 free or shortly connate below. Fruit a fleshy drupe; pyrenes cartilaginous, compressed; endosperm uniform.

Pet and stamens each 5; carpels (4)5(6), the styles distinct or somewhat connate below; fr a berry-like drupe, tipped by the persistent styles, usually with as many pyrenes as carpels; prickly or unarmed herbs, shrubs, or trees, with pinnately or ternately compound or decompound lvs and 2–many umbels of white or greenish fls in each infl. 35, Indomal., e. Asia, N. Amer.

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Usually on scrubby hillsides and in secondary growth, often in ravines or near streams, or in thickets near or above the limit of tree-growth, at low altitude (100 m), but usually in the montane zone, up to 3000 m.

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