Araliaceae
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Araliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Family Description - Fls commonly small, mostly in umbels that may be arranged into secondary infls, usually perfect, regular (or the outermost ones irregular), epigynous, usually 5-merous; cal commonly of small teeth around the top of the ovary, or obsolete; pet distinct, mostly valvate; stamens alternate with the pet; carpels mostly 2–5, united into a compound, inferior, plurilocular ovary; style or styles generally swollen at base to form a ± definite stylopodium confluent with the epigynous nectary-disk; ovules solitary in each locule, apical-axile, pendulous, epitropous; fr a berry, or often a drupe with several pyrenes; seeds with small, dicotyledonous embryo and abundant, oily endosperm; woody plants or less often perennial herbs, with mostly alternate (rarely whorled), compound or lobed lvs and commonly broad or sheathing petiole that may have evident stipular appendages. 70/700, mostly trop. and subtrop.
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Common Names
The ginseng family