Macropanax Miq.

Genus

Angiosperms > Apiales > Araliaceae

Characteristics

Trees or shrubs, evergreen, hermaphroditic (?or functionally andromonoecious), unarmed. Leaves simple, palmately lobed, or palmately compound and leaflets 3-7, margin entire or serrate; stipules absent or connate into a short lamina within petiole or absent. Inflorescence a terminal panicle of umbels; secondary axes with a terminal umbel of bisexual flowers, sometimes also with lateral umbels of smaller, later flowering (?functionally male) flowers; bracts small, caducous. Pedicels articulate below ovary, often minutely bracteolate. Calyx entire or 5-toothed. Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 5. Ovary 2(or 3)-carpellate; styles united into a column or partially free apically. Fruit a drupe, subglobose or ovoid, sometimes laterally compressed (especially when dry). Seeds semiterete or laterally compressed; endosperm uniform, ruminate or rugose.
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Small, unarmed trees. Leaves digitately compound or unifoliolate; petiole terete, with a sheathing base; stipules inconspicuous; leaflets entire or denticulate. Inflorescence a terminal panicle of umbellules. Pedicels articulated below the ovary. Flowers bisexual or on lower branches male. Calyx 5-6-dentate. Petals 5-6, valvate. Stamens 5-6, extrorse. Ovary inferior, 2-6-celled. Disk fleshy with the styles united below. Fruit ellipsoid or obovate, surmounted by an awl-shaped or conical stylopodium; exocarp fleshy, endocarp crustaceous. Endosperm ruminate.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
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Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Lowland and montane rain-forest.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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