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The genus Aralia is in the family Araliaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

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Species in Aralia

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Aralia apioides Hand.-Mazz.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia armata (Wall. ex G.Don) Seem.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia atropurpurea Franch.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia bicrenata Wooton & Standl.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia bipinnata Blanco	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia cachemirica Decne.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia caesia Hand.-Mazz.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia californica S.Watson	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia castanopsiscola (Hayata) J.Wen	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia chinensis L.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia continentalis Kitag.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia cordata Thunb.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia dasyphylla Miq.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia dasyphylloides (Hand.-Mazz.) J.Wen	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia decaisneana Hance	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia delavayi J.Wen	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia echinocaulis Hand.-Mazz.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia elata (Miq.) Seem.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia elegans C.N.Ho	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia excelsa (Griseb.) J.Wen	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia fargesii Franch.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia ferox Miq.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia finlaysoniana (Wall. ex G.Don) Seem.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia foliolosa Seem. ex C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia frodiniana J.Wen	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia gigantea J.Wen	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia gintungensis C.Y.Wu ex K.M.Feng	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia glabra Matsum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia glabrifoliolata (C.B.Shang) J.Wen	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia henryi Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia hiepiana J.Wen & Lowry	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia hispida Vent.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia houheensis W.X.Wang, W.Y.Guo & Y.S.Fu	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia humilis Cav.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia hypoglauca (C.J.Qi & T.R.Cao) J.Wen & Y.F.Deng	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia kansuensis G.Hoo	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia kingdon-wardii J.Wen, Lowry & Esser	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia laevis J.Wen	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia leschenaultii (DC.) J.Wen	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia lihengiana J.Wen, L.L.Deng & X.C.Shi	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia malabarica Bedd.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia melanocarpa (H.Lév.) Lauener	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia merrillii C.B.Shang	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia mexicana (C.B.Shang & X.P.Li) Frodin	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia montana Blume	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia nudicaulis L.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia officinalis Z.Z.Wang	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia parasitica (D.Don) J.Wen	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia plumosa H.L.Li	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia racemosa L.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia regeliana Marchal	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia rex (Ekman) J.Wen	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia scaberula G.Hoo	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia scopulorum Brandegee	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia searelliana Dunn	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia shangiana J.Wen	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia soratensis Marchal	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia spinifolia Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia spinosa L.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia stellata (King) J.Wen	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia stipulata Franch.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia subcordata (Wall. ex G.Don) J.Wen	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia thomsonii Seem. ex C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia tibetana G.Hoo	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia tomentella Franch.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia undulata Hand.-Mazz.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia urticifolia Blume ex Miq.	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia verticillata (Dunn) J.Wen	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia vietnamensis Ha	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia warmingiana (Marchal) J.Wen	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia wilsonii Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Aralia yunnanensis Franch.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 325 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Aralia. Of these 72 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 84 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Aralia. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 325 species names for the genus Aralia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	72	22.2%
◕	Synonym	224	68.9%
◕	Unplaced	13	4.0%
◕	Unassessed	16	4.9%

All names

The status of the 409 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Aralia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	81	19.8%
◕	Synonym	299	73.1%
◕	Unplaced	13	3.2%
◕	Unassessed	16	3.9%

Of these names,

• 10 are recorded as invalid
• 15 are recorded as illegitimate
• 2 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 325 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Aralia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	71	212	0	0	283	87.1%
	Medium confidence	0	8	0	0	8	2.5%
	Low confidence	1	4	13	16	34	10.5%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Aralia, are as follows: