Aralia bipinnata
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Description
A shrub or small, sparsely branched tree to 7 m, with prickly stems.
Leaves to 1.5 m or more long, forming large crowns at the ends of the branches, bipinnate, with a pair of pinnae at each division of the rachis, with some prickles, especially on the petiole or unarmed, the rachis swollen and articulated at the nodes;
Inflorescence a large terminal panicle 30-70 cm long (or more), peduncle and also usually the main branches prickly, the whole either almost glabrous or pubescent;
Fruit spheroidal, c. 3 by 4 mm, strongly 5-ribbed when dry, persistent styles spreading.
Distribution
Asia-Temperate: Taiwan (Taiwan present), Asia-Tropical: Philippines (Philippines present), Leyte present, Luzon present, Mindanao present, Mindoro present, Negros present, Swart Valley, Vogelkop Peninsula present, West New Guinea present
Taiwan; in Malesia: Philippines (Luzon, Leyte, Negros, Mindoro, Mindanao) and West New Guinea (Vogelkop Peninsula, possibly also in Swart Valley).
Citation
Merr. 1910 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Bot. 369
Steen. 1948 – In: Bull. Bot. Gard. Btzg: 392
Merr. 1918: Sp. Blanc.: 294
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 236
Philipson 1977 – In: Gard. Bull. Sing.: 99
Harms 1896 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 18
Blanco 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 235
Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 751
Presl 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 235
F.-Vill. 1880: Nov. App.: 101
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 235
Vedal 1885: Phan. Cuming. Philip.: 117
Presl 1886: Rev. Pl. Vase. Filip.: 144