Eleutherococcus cissifolius (Griff. ex C. B. Clarke) Nakai

Shrubs, to ca. 3 m tall. Branches usually pubescent when young, unarmed or with scattered short prickles. Petiole 4-12 cm, sometimes prickly, pubescent when young; petiolules 2-5 mm; leaflets (3-)5, oblong, oblanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate, 3-8 × 1.5-2.5 cm, papery, abaxially pubescent when young, later glabrescent, adaxially glabrous or scattered hispid, base attenuate, margin serrate or biserrate, apex acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, a simple or compound umbel, borne on leafy shoots; umbels 1 to several, densely pubescent when young; peduncles 3-12 cm; pedicels 0.8-1.5 cm. Calyx entire, glabrous. Corolla yellowish green. Ovary 3-5-carpellate; styles free to base or nearly so. Fruit globose, 6-8 mm in diam.; styles persistent, ca. 2 mm. Fl. Jul, fr. Oct.

Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan, India (Sikkim), Nepal].

Scrub fields; 2500-3600 m.

Aralia cissifolia Griffith ex C. B. Clarke in J. D. Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 2: 722. 1879; Acanthopanax cissifolius (Griffith ex C. B. Clarke) Harms; A. cissifolius var. glaber Y. R. Li; Eleutherococcus cissifolius var. glaber (Y. R. Li) P. S. Hsu & S. L. Pan.