Araliaceae
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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).
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
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).
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Flora SSSR, vol. 16. Moscow-Leningrad, 1950.Takhtadzhian, A. L. Sistema i filogeniia tsvetkovykh rastenii. Moscow-Leningrad, 1966.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.