Oplopanax (Torr. & A.Gray) Miq.

Oplopanax (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Apiales > Araliaceae

Characteristics

Shrubs, annually dying back, hermaphroditic, armed with numerous prickles. Leaves simple, palmately lobed, margins serrate, stipules united with petiole, sheathing at base. Inflorescence a terminal panicle or raceme of umbels. Pedicels not articulate below ovary. Calyx 5-toothed, 3 teeth spinelike. Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 5. Ovary 2-carpellate; styles 2, free or united below. Fruit a drupe, red-yellow at maturity, to 1.2 mm in diam. Seeds depressed; endosperm uniform.
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Pet and stamens each 5; carpels 2(3), the styles distinct; fr a berry-like drupe with 2(3) pyrenes; very prickly shrubs with large, simple, petiolate, lobed lvs and numerous crowded, head-like umbels in ample terminal racemes. Monospecific.
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Foliage retention evergreen
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-10

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Images

Oplopanax unspecified picture

Distribution

Oplopanax world distribution map, present in China, Micronesia (Federated States of), Japan, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:3064-1
WFO ID wfo-4000026986
COL ID 8VZX3
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Oplopanax

Lower taxons

Oplopanax japonicus Oplopanax elatus Oplopanax horridus