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Araliaceae
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Desert Research Learning Center, Botany Program
Shrubs, lianas or trees and rarely herbs, aromatic, with various hairs, sometimes with prickles, leaves alternate and spiral, pinnately or palmately compound to simple, dissected or lobed, entire to serrate with pinnate to palmate venation. Determinate inflorescence with simple umbels arranged in racemes, spikes or panicles, flowers bisexual, usually radial, small. Usually 5 sepals, petals, developing from ring primordium, sometimes connate or imbricate, with 5 stamens. Carpels usually 2-5, connate, inferior ovary with axile placentation, 2-5 tiny and capitate to truncate stigmas. Fruit a globose berry or drupe with 2-5 pits. 
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Acanthopanax senticosus
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Acanthopanax sieboldianus
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Aralia bipinnata
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Aralia cachemirica
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Aralia californica
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Aralia chinensis
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Aralia continentalis
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Aralia cordata
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Aralia decaisneana
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Aralia echinocaulis
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Aralia edulis
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Aralia elata
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Aralia excelsa
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Aralia hispida
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Aralia humilis
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Aralia malabarica
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Aralia nudicaulis
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Aralia papyrifera
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Aralia pentaphylla
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Aralia racemosa
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Aralia regeliana
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Aralia rex
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Aralia scopulorum
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Aralia spinifolia
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Aralia spinosa
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Aralia stipulata
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Aralia thomsonii
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Aralia tomentella
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Aralia trifolia
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Aralia wangshanensis
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Arthrophyllum pinnatum
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Astrotricha asperifolia
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Astrotricha floccosa
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Astrotricha latifolia
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Astrotricha ledifolia
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Astrotricha longifolia
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Brassaia actinophylla
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Brassaiopsis aculeata
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Brassaiopsis glomerulata
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Cheirodendron dominii
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Cheirodendron fauriei
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Cheirodendron forbesii
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Cheirodendron helleri
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Cheirodendron kauaiense
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Cheirodendron platyphyllum
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Cheirodendron trigynum
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Chengiopanax sciadophylloides
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Cussonia arborea
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Cussonia natalensis
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Cussonia paniculata
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