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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Araliaceae

ARALIACEAE

Plants us. dioec. or polygamodioec.; fls us. 5-merous, regular, bracted, small, in heads or simple to compound umbels. Petals early deciduous; stamens arising from nectariferous disk; anthers dorsifixed, 2-celled, dehiscing lengthwise. Ovary inferior, (1)-2-15-loculed and -styled; placentae axile. Ovules 1 per locule, pend.; fr. baccate. Herbs, shrubs, lianes or trees with us. alt. compound or simple exstipulate lvs. Mainly tropical family with some 65 genera and 800 spp.

Key

1
Plant a herb, lvs suborbicular-reniform
2
Plant a shrub or tree, lvs not as above
3
2
Ovary 4-3-loculed, fr. hollowed at apex, stylopodia ill-developed
1. STILBOCARPA
Ovary 2-loculed, fr. not hollowed at apex, stylopodia strongly developed
2. KIRKOPHYTUM
3
Fls clustered on panicle, lvs (including petioles) 35 cm. or more long
3. MERYTA
Fls in definite umbels, lvs much shorter
4
4
Umbels racemosely arranged on branches of panicle
4. SCHEFFLERA
Umbels simple or compound, not racemosely arranged
5
5
Style-branches 2, ovary 2-loculed
5. NEOPANAX
Style-branches 5-3, ovary 5-3-loculed
6. PSEUDOPANAX
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