Aralioideae

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Campanulids
Ordo: Apiales

Familia: Araliaceae
Subfamilia: Aralioideae
Genera: Anakasia – Aralia – Astrotricha – Brassaiopsis – Cephalaralia – Cheirodendron – Chengiopanax – Cussonia – Dendropanax – Eleutherococcus – Fatsia – Gamblea – Harmsiopanax – Hedera – Heteropanax – Hunaniopanax – Kalopanax – Macropanax – Megalopanax – Merrilliopanax – Meryta – Metapanax – Motherwellia – Neopanax – Oplopanax – Oreopanax – Osmoxylon – Panax – Pentapanax – Plerandra – Sinopanax – Pseudopanax – Raukaua – Schefflera – Sciadodendron – Seemannaralia – Sinopanax – Stilbocarpa – Tetrapanax – Trevesia – Woodburnia

Artificial Nothogenus: × Fatshedera
Name

Aralioideae Eaton, Bot. Dict. ed. 4: 37 (1836) (“Araliaceae”)

Type genus: Aralia L., Sp. Pl. 1: 273. (1753)

Synonyms

Botryodendraceae J. Agardh
Hederaceae Giseke

References
Primary references

Eaton, A. 1836. Eatons’ Botanical Grammar and Dictionary, modernized down to 1836: published for a companion of Steeles’s seventh edition of the Manual of Botany. Ed. 4. Albany: O. Steele. 125 pp. Google Books Open access Reference page.

Additional references

Fiaschi, P., Lowry, P.P. & Plunkett, G.M. 2020. Studies in Neotropical Araliaceae. III. Resurrection of the New World genus Didymopanax Decne. & Planch., previously included in Schefflera (Araliaceae). Brittonia 72(1): 16–22. DOI: 10.1007/s12228-019-09604-w Paywall Reference page.
Lowry, P.P., II & Plunkett, G.M. 2010. Recircumscription of Polyscias (Araliaceae) to include six related genera, with a new infrageneric classification and a synopsis of species. Plant Diversity and Evolution 128: 55–84. DOI: 10.1127/1869-6155/2010/0128-0003 Full text PDF from ResearchGate Reference page.
Lowry, P.P., Plunkett, G.M., Gostel, M.R. & Frodin, D.G. 2017. A synopsis of the Afro-Malagasy species previously included in Schefflera (Araliaceae): resurrection of the genera Astropanax and Neocussonia. Candollea 72(2): 265-282. DOI: 10.15553/c2017v722a4 Paywall 318019996 ResearchGate Reference page.
Lowry II, P.P., Plunkett, G.M., Mora, M.M., Cano, A., Fiaschi, P., Frodin, D.G., Gereau, R.E., Idárraga-Piedrahíta, Á., Jiménez-Montoya, J., Mendoza, J.M.F. & Neill, D.A. 2019. Studies in Neotropical Araliaceae. I. Resurrection of the genus Sciodaphyllum P. Browne to accommodate most New World species previously included in Schefflera JR Forst. & G. Forst. Brittonia 72(1): 1-15. DOI: 10.1007/s12228-019-09593-w Paywall ResearchGate Reference page.
Lowry II, P.P., Plunkett, G.M. & Neill, D.A. 2019. Studies in Neotropical Araliaceae. II. Resurrection of the Neotropical Genus Crepinella for a Clade of New World Species Previously Included in Schefflera (Araliaceae). Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature 27(4): 253-261. DOI: 351403419 Paywall ResearchGate Reference page.
Lowry II, P.P. & Plunkett, G.M. 2020. Resurrection of the genus Heptapleurum for the Asian clade of species previously included in Schefflera (Araliaceae). Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature 28(3): 143-170. DOI: 10.3417/2020612 Paywall Reference page.
Plunkett, G.M., Lowry, P.P. & Neill, D.A. 2021. Studies in Neotropical Araliaceae. VII. Two new genera, Cephalopanax and Frodinia, to accommodate the remaining species of Neotropical Schefflera. Brittonia 73(3): 1-11. DOI: 10.1007/s12228-021-09660-1 Paywall Reference page.

Links

Stevens, P.F. 2001 onwards. Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 14, July 2017 [and more or less continuously updated since]. Online. Reference page.

Taxon identifiers

Wikidata: Q2073076 GRIN: 2250 VASCAN: 275

Vernacular names
العربية: أرالياوات
한국어: 두릅나무아과
русский: Аралиевые

Aralioideae is a subfamily of flowering plants contains around 50 recognized genera. These include the genus Panax, to which ginseng belongs. Other notable species are the Angelica-tree (devil's walking-stick, Aralia spinosa), the devil's club (Oplopanax horridus), or common ivy (Hedera helix).

They are traditionally divided into a number of tribes. More recently it has turned out that the Aralieae and Schefflerieae were not accurately delimited. However, with moving some genera around, monophyly of each taxon can probably be achieved. Splitting the Panaceae from the Aralieae is rejected by the current state of knowledge, and whether the Schefflerieae can be accurately subdivided into the Plerandreae and Tetraplasandreae is at least highly doubtful. The Mackinlayeae seem to form a smaller and more basal lineage, but many other genera still await study.

Mackinlayeae

Apiopetalum
Mackinlaya
Pseudosciadium

Aralieae

Aralia
Arthrophyllum
Cuphocarpus
Gastonia
Meryta
Munroidendron
Panax
Pentapanax
Polyscias
Pseudopanax
Reynoldsia
Sciadodendron
Tetraplasandra

Schefflerieae

Brassaiopsis
Dendropanax
Eleutherococcus
×Fatshedera
Fatsia
Gamblea
Hedera
Heteropanax
Kalopanax
Macropanax
Metapanax
Oplopanax
Oreopanax
Schefflera – probably paraphyletic
Sinopanax
Tetrapanax
Trevesia
Tupidanthus

Placement unresolved

Anakasia
Astrotricha – basal?
Cephalaralia – basal?
Cheirodendron – basal?
Cussonia – basal?
Harmsiopanax
Megalopanax
Merrilliopanax
Motherwellia
Osmoxylon – basal?
Raukaua – basal?
Seemannaralia
Stilbocarpa – basal? Possibly belongs into Apiaceae
Woodburnia

References

Crescent Bloom Plants. Retrieved April 11, 2007.