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Eleutherococcus Maxim.

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Genus

Angiosperms > Apiales > Araliaceae

Characteristics

Shrubs, erect or scandent, rarely small trees, hermaphroditic or andromonoecious, glabrous or pubescent, usually prickly, occasionally unarmed. Leaves palmately compound or trifoliolate; stipules absent or very weakly developed. Inflorescence a terminal (rarely axillary) panicle of umbels or a solitary umbel, secondary axes with a terminal umbel of bisexual flowers and 1 to many lateral umbels of later flowering bisexual or functionally male flowers. Pedicels not articulate or only slightly articulate below ovary. Calyx margin entire or with 5 minute teeth. Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 5. Ovary 2-5-carpellate; styles 2-5, free to base, or partially to fully united. Fruit a drupe, laterally compressed or subglobose. Seeds laterally compressed; endosperm smooth.
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Small trees or scandent shrubs, prickly or unarmed. Leaves digitately compound, stipules absent, glabrous or with bristles. Inflorescence terminal, with umbels either solitary or more usually umbellately or racemosely arranged; pedicels not articulated below the flower. Flowers hermaphrodite or sexually dimorphic. Calyx margin minutely dentate. Petals 4 or 5, valvate. Stamens as many as the petals, anthers dorsifixed, introrse. Ovary 2-4(-5)-celled; disk fleshy; styles 2, connate to about the middle. Fruit a subglobose drupe, crowned by the persistent bifid style, 2-4(-5)-seeded; exocarp fleshy, endocarp chartaceous or cartilaginous. Endosperm smooth or undulate.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
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Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Usually in montane forest or in secondary growth.
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Hardiness (USDA) 5-12

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Images

Eleutherococcus unspecified picture

Distribution

Eleutherococcus world distribution map, present in Chile, China, Indonesia, Iceland, Japan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Taiwan, Province of China, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:328246-2
WFO ID wfo-4000013194
COL ID 8VX93
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Synonyms

Eleutherococcus

Lower taxons

Eleutherococcus baoxinensis Eleutherococcus cissifolius Eleutherococcus cuspidatus Eleutherococcus divaricatus Eleutherococcus eleutheristylus Eleutherococcus giraldii Eleutherococcus henryi Eleutherococcus lasiogyne Eleutherococcus leucorrhizus Eleutherococcus nikaianus Eleutherococcus pilosulus Eleutherococcus pseudosetulosus Eleutherococcus pubescens Eleutherococcus rehderianus Eleutherococcus scandens Eleutherococcus senticosus Eleutherococcus setchuenensis Eleutherococcus setulosus Eleutherococcus sieboldianus Eleutherococcus simonii Eleutherococcus stenophyllus Eleutherococcus trichodon Eleutherococcus trifoliatus Eleutherococcus wardii Eleutherococcus wilsonii Eleutherococcus brachypus Eleutherococcus eleutheristylus Eleutherococcus sessiliflorus Eleutherococcus cuspidatus Eleutherococcus japonicus Eleutherococcus higoensis Eleutherococcus nanpingensis Eleutherococcus xizangensis Eleutherococcus nodiflorus Eleutherococcus spinosus Eleutherococcus hypoleucus Eleutherococcus verticillatus
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