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Aralia undulata; photograph peganum from Henfield, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SApeganum from Henfield, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Aralia undulata Hand.-Mazz.

Araliaceae · China South-Central, China Southeast +2

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About the genus · Aralia

Aralia, or spikenard, is a genus of the family Araliaceae, consisting of 68 accepted species of deciduous or evergreen trees, shrubs, and rhizomatous herbaceous perennials. The genus is native to Asia and the Americas, with most species occurring in mountain woodlands. Aralia plants vary in size, with some herbaceous species only reaching 50 centimetres (20 in) tall, while some are trees growing to 20 metres (66 ft) tall.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Aralia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 50 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 50 of the 50 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, China Southeast, Myanmar, Vietnam · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker26.43, 110.85 · in the densest population, 41 records (82% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 50 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 28 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 22 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 50 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 50 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: peganum from Henfield, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (5); peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Aralia 13 in the reference

Aralia bipinnata Aralia bipinnata Araliaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedAralia cachemirica Aralia cachemirica Araliaceae Photo: CC BY, Morten RossAralia californica Aralia californica California spikenard Photo: CC BY, Lia KeenerAralia chinensis Aralia chinensis Chinese angelica-tree Photo: CC0, author not statedAralia continentalis Aralia continentalis Manchurian-spikenard Photo: CC BY, Tatyana PetrenkoAralia cordata Aralia cordata Japanese-spikenard Photo: CC BY, mami_t_tAralia decaisneana Aralia decaisneana Decaisne's spikenard Photo: CC BY, 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)Aralia echinocaulis Aralia echinocaulis Araliaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, peganum from Henfield, EnglandAralia elata Aralia elata Japanese angelica tree Photo: CC BY, the swamp assAralia hispida Aralia hispida Bristly sarsaparilla Photo: CC BY, Steven LamondeAralia nudicaulis Aralia nudicaulis Wild sarsaparilla Photo: CC BY, Andrew LaiAralia racemosa Aralia racemosa American-spikenard Photo: CC0, author not stated all 14 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Aralia chapaensis; Aralia undulata var. cirrhifolia; Aralia undulata var. nudifolia. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Araliaceae
Described by
Hand.-Mazz.
Native to
China South-Central, China Southeast, Myanmar +1
Wild records
50 in range · 28 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2150 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 9 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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