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Pentapanax Seem.

Genus

Angiosperms > Apiales > Araliaceae

Characteristics

Trees or shrubs, evergreen or deciduous, sometimes epiphytic, hermaphroditic or andromonoecious, unarmed. Leaves pinnately compound, rarely simple; leaflets entire to serrate; stipules absent. Inflorescence a terminal panicle of umbels, heads, or racemules, glabrous or pubescent, developing from specialized floral buds, usually surrounded by numerous persistent bracts at base. Pedicels articulate below ovary. Calyx minutely 5-dentate. Petals 5(-7), imbricate. Stamens 5(-7). Ovary (3-)5(-7)-carpellate; styles united into a column or divided, as many as carpels. Fruit a drupe, globose to ellipsoid or ovoid. Seeds as many as carpels; endosperm uniform.
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Trees or shrubs, often scandent, unarmed. Leaves imparipinnate, exstipulate, glabrous. Flowers in racemes or umbels, which are arranged in panicles or compound umbels, pedicels articulated below the ovary. Calyx 5. Petals 5, imbricate in the bud. Stamens 5. Ovary inferior, 5-celled, disk ± conical, surmounted by the styles which are united their whole length or become free down to half their length. Fruit globose; exocarp leathery, enclosing crustaceous pyrenes. Seeds compressed, endosperm smooth.
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Foliage retention evergreen
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Forest and scrub.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

Pentapanax world distribution map, present in Australia, China, India, Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, Viet Nam, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:3076-1
WFO ID wfo-4000028605
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Synonyms

Pentapanax

Lower taxons

Pentapanax castanopseicola
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