Aralia frodiniana

Species of flowering plant

Aralia frodiniana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Apiales
Family: Araliaceae
Genus: Aralia
Species:
A. frodiniana
Binomial name
Aralia frodiniana
J. Wen

Aralia frodiniana is a plant species endemic to the Island of Sulawesi in Indonesia.[1]

It is a shrub with prickles on the stems. Leaves are bipinnate with hair and prickles on the petioles. Leaflets are ovate to elliptical, up to 8 cm long, with teeth along the margins, upper side green with a few hairs, lower side much lighter and very densely hairy. Inflorescence about 35 cm long, a collection of umbels in a paniculate array. Fruits spherical, about 4 mm in diameter, with 5 seeds each.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b Wen, Jun. 2001. Aralia frondiniana (Aralacieae), a new species from Indonesia. Novon 11:498-500.
  2. ^ Wen, Jun. 2011. Systematics and biogeography of Aralia L. (Araliaceae), revision of Sections Aralia, Humiles, Nana and Sciadodendron. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 57:1-172.
Taxon identifiers
Aralia frodiniana


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