Eleutherococcus brachypus

Eleutherococcus brachypus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Apiales
Family: Araliaceae
Subfamily: Aralioideae
Genus: Eleutherococcus
Species: E. brachypus
Binomial name
Eleutherococcus brachypus
(Harms) Nakai, Fl. Sylv. Kor. 16: 27. 1927
Synonyms

Acanthopanax brachypus

Eleutherococcus brachypus (Chinese: 短柄五加 duan bing wu jia) is a species of flowering plant in the family Araliaceae. It is endemic to China, where it occurs in scrub fields and roadsides on mountain slopes in Gansu, Ningxia, and Shaanxi provinces.[2]

This plant contains acetylated stilbenoid glucosides.[3]

References

  1. China Plant Specialist Group. 2004. Eleutherococcus brachypus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004. Downloaded on 16 September 2015.
  2. "Eleutherococcus brachypus". Flora of China. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  3. Hu, H. B., Zheng, X. D., Hu, H. S., & Li, Y. (2009). Acylated stilbene glucosides and further constituents from Acanthopanax brachypus. Helvetica Chimica Acta, 92(3), 546-554.
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