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AraliaceaeenUK ThesaurusNoun | 1. | Araliaceae - mostly tropical trees and shrubs and lianas: genera Panax and Hederafamily Araliaceae, ivy familyrosid dicot family - a family of dicotyledonous plantsgenus Aralia - type genus of Araliaceae; large widely distributed genus of shrubs and trees and vines: spikenard; Hercules'-clubgenus Hedera, Hedera - Old World woody vinesgenus Meryta, Meryta - small to medium evergreen dioecious trees of oceanic climates: pukagenus Panax, Panax - perennial herbs of eastern North America and Asia having aromatic tuberous roots: ginsenggenus Schefflera, Schefflera - large genus of shrubby and climbing tropical plants having showy digitately compound foliageorder Umbellales, Umbellales - plants having umbels or corymbs of uniovulate flowers; includes the Umbelliferae (chiefly herbs) and Cornaceae (chiefly trees or shrubs) |
AraliaceaeenUK
Araliaceae[ə‚rāl·ē′ās·ē‚ē] (botany) A family of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs in the order Umbellales; there are typically five carpels and the fruit, usually a berry, is fleshy or dry; well-known members are ginseng (Panax) and English ivy (Hedera helix). Araliaceae a family of dicotyledonous plants—small trees and bushes (some are climbing bushes); less frequently, perennial grasses. The flowers are actinomorphous, usually umbellate, often in complex inflorescences. There are about 70 genera and 850 species in tropical and subtropical regions, especially in Southeast Asia, Asia, Polynesia, Australia, and tropical America. In the USSR there are six genera in the Far East and one in the area of the Caucasus and Europe. The Araliaceae include decorative varieties (ivy) and important medicinal plants (ginseng, aralias, Eleutherococcus, and Echinopanax). REFERENCESFlora SSSR, vol. 16. Moscow-Leningrad, 1950. Takhtadzhian, A. L. Sistema i filogeniia tsvetkovykh rastenii. Moscow-Leningrad, 1966.AraliaceaeenUK Related to Araliaceae: Balsaminaceae, ginseng, ScheffleraSynonyms for Araliaceaenoun mostly tropical trees and shrubs and lianas: genera Panax and HederaSynonyms- family Araliaceae
- ivy family
Related Words- rosid dicot family
- genus Aralia
- genus Hedera
- Hedera
- genus Meryta
- Meryta
- genus Panax
- Panax
- genus Schefflera
- Schefflera
- order Umbellales
- Umbellales
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