Eleutherococcus
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Description
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;
Flowers hermaphrodite or sexually dimorphic.
Petals 4 or 5, valvate.
Stamens as many as the petals, anthers dorsifixed, introrse.
Ovary 2-4(-5)-celled;
Fruit a subglobose drupe, crowned by the persistent bifid style, 2-4(-5)-seeded;
Distribution
Asia-Temperate, Asia-Tropical: Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Philippines (Philippines present), Gajo Lands present, Himalayan region present, N. Luzon present, N. Sumatra present
About 30 spp. in eastern Asia and the Himalayan region, south to Malesia (2 spp.): Malay Peninsula, N. Sumatra (Gajo Lands), Philippines (N. Luzon).