Aralia 刺?屬
型態特徵
Herbs, shrubs or small trees, glabrous or pubescent, often prickly. Leaves pinnate to thrice-pinnate, with serrate or nearly entire leaflets, estipulate. Flowers polygamo-monoecious, in umbels, the umbels solitary or several together, usually arranged in racemes or panicles, rarely in compound umbels, the pedicels mostly distinctly under the flower; calyx-margin minutely 5-toothed; petals 5, imbricate; ovary 2–5-celled; styles 2–5, free or shortly connate at the base; disc fleshy, small, slightly raised at the margin. Fruit 2–5-celled, subglobose, 3–5-angular; seeds compressed; endosperm uniform.
About 35 species, in North America, Asia and Malaysia; three in Taiwan.