Taxon: Kalopanax septemlobus (Thunb.) Koidz.

Common names:

• castor-aralia   (Source: Zander Ency ) – English
  
• tree-aralia   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• ci qui   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• kalopanax du Japon   (Source: Zander Ency ) – French
  
• Baumaralie   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• Baumkraftwurz   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• harigiri   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• sen-no-ki   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• fingrad jättearalia   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  
• jättearalia   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  
• spetslönn   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3; Krussmann)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide F USSR; Dict Econ Pl, as Acanthopanax ricinifolius)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide F ChinaEng)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Kurile Islands, Primorye, Sakhalin
  China: China - Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku; Korea

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Brummitt, R. K. 1993. Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 39. Taxon 42:877. [rejection of Acer pictum Thunb. ex Murray not recommended].
• Chang, C. S. et al. 2003. A morphometric analysis of the eastern Asian Kalopanax septemlobus (Thunb.) Koidz. (Araliaceae). Bot. Bull. Acad. Sin. 44:337–344. [should be recognized as one polymorphic species].
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin. 2004. World checklist and bibliography of Araliaceae.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
• Wijnands, D. O. 1990. (988) Proposal to reject Acer pictum Thunb. ex Murr. (Aceraceae). Taxon 39:536. [typifies Acer pictum Thunb. on Acer element].
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Kalopanax septemlobus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Kalopanax septemlobus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Kalopanax septemlobus.

Synonyms:

• (=) Acanthopanax ricinifolius (Siebold & Zucc.) Seem.
  (previously associated with 5 accessions)
• (≡) Acanthopanax septemlobus (Thunb.) Koidz. ex Rehder
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Acer pictum Thunb.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Acer septemlobum Thunb. (basionym)
  
• (=) Aralia maximowiczii Van Houtte
  
• (=) Brassaiopsis ricinifolia (Siebold & Zucc.) Seem.
  
• (=) Kalopanax pictus Nakai
  (previously associated with 9 accessions)
• (=) Kalopanax pictus var. maximowiczii (Van Houtte) H. Hara ex H. L. Li
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Kalopanax ricinifolius (Siebold & Zucc.) Miq.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Kalopanax septemlobus var. maximowiczii (Van Houtte) Hand.-Mazz.
  
• (=) Panax ricinifolius Siebold & Zucc.
  

Check other web resources for Kalopanax septemlobus (Thunb.) Koidz.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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