Description
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Shrubs, to ca. 2 m tall. Branches with few, short, recurved prickles at nodes, rarely unarmed. Petioles to 7 cm at bases of branches, gradually shorter apically; leaves nearly sessile toward apices of branches; petiolules very short, glabrous; leaflets 3-5, obovate-oblong to rhombic, 3-6 × 1-2.5 cm, papery, both surfaces glabrous, secondary veins 3-5 pairs, base cuneate, margin entire or rarely with few teeth apically, apex rounded to obtuse. Inflorescence terminal, a simple or compound umbel, borne on leafy shoots, with 1-4 umbels; peduncles ca. 2 cm; pedicels 1-1.5 cm, glabrous. Calyx with 5 teeth, glabrous, rarely slightly pubescent. Corolla greenish. Ovary 5-carpellate; styles united into a column. Fruit subglobose, ca. 5 mm; styles persistent, ca. 2 cm. Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Sep-Oct.
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Habitat
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● Scrub fields, roadsides on mountain slopes; 1000-2000 m.
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Synonym
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Acanthopanax brachypus Harms, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 36 (Beibl. 82): 80. 1905; A. obovatus G. Hoo; Eleutherococcus brachypus var. omeiensis C. H. Kim & B. Y. Sun; E. obovatus (G. Hoo) H. Ohashi.
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Eleutherococcus brachypus: Brief Summary
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Eleutherococcus brachypus (Chinese: 短柄五加 duan bing wu jia) is a species of flowering plant in the family Araliaceae. It is endemic to China, where it occurs in scrub fields and roadsides on mountain slopes in Gansu, Ningxia, and Shaanxi provinces.
This plant contains acetylated stilbenoid glucosides.
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