Aralia spinifolia Merr.

This species is used for washing boils.

Shrubs, to 3 m tall, andromonoecious. Branches with dense, flat prickles 1-10 mm and slender setae 2-4 mm. Leaves 2(or 3)-pinnately compound, with a pair of accessory leaflets at each division of rachis, petioles, rachis, secondary rachis, and leaflets with scattered, slender and nearly straight prickles, recurved, conic prickles, and numerous slender, spreading setae; petiole to ca. 50 cm; petiolules (0-)0.5-3 mm; leaflets 5-9 per pinna, ovate to narrowly ovate, rarely lanceolate, 5-17 × 2.5-9 cm, papery to submembranous, secondary veins 5-8 pairs, conspicuous on both surfaces, reticulate veins conspicuous abaxially, inconspicuous adaxially, base rounded to slightly subcordate, margin serrate or biserrate (teeth ciliate), apex acuminate. Inflorescence a terminal panicle of umbels, setose, with prickles and bristles, lax; ultimate axis with a terminal umbel of bisexual flowers and 1 or 2 lateral umbels of male flowers; bracts persistent or caducous, oblong, 3-6 mm; umbels 20-50-flowered; pedicels 1.2-1.6 cm (shorter in male flowers), densely setose and furfuraceous. Ovary 5-carpellate; styles 5, united basally, free apically. Fruit globose, 5-5.5 mm in diam.; styles persistent, radiating. Fl. Aug-Oct, fr. Oct-Dec.

Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi (Jinxiu, Wuzhou, Yuanbao Shan), Hunan (Qianyang, Tongdao), Jiangxi (Ruijin, Xingguo, Xunwu), Taiwan, Zhejiang.

● Mountain slopes, open woods, forest margins, ravines, roadsides; 200-800 m.

Aralia nantouensis S. S. Ying.

Aralia spinifolia là một loài thực vật có hoa trong Họ Cuồng. Loài này được Merr. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1919.

长刺楤木（学名：Aralia spinifolia）是五加科楤木属的植物，是中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的广西、广东、福建、湖南、江西等地，生长于海拔600米至1,000米的地区，常生长在山坡和林缘阳光充足处，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。