Panax: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Apiales
- Family
- Araliaceae
- Genus
- Panax
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Panax
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Panax
The Panax (ginseng) genus belongs to the Araliaceae (ivy) family. Panax species are characterized by the presence of ginsenosides and gintonin. Panax is one of approximately 60 plant genera with a classical disjunct east Asian and east North American distribution. Furthermore, this disjunct distribution is asymmetric as only two of the ~18 species in genus are native to North America.
...Panax in languages:
- Chinese
- 人蔘屬
- Chinese
- 人參属
- Czech
- ženšen
- English
- Ginsengs
- Japanese
- トチバニンジン属
- Portuguese
- Jinséns verdadeiros
- Russian
- Женьшень
- Thai
- สกุล โสม
- Turkish
- ginseng
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Acanthopanax
- Anakasia
- Aralia
- Aralioideae
- Arthrophyllum
- Astropanax
- Astrotricha
- Brassaiopsis
- Cephalaralia
- Cephalopanax
- Cheirodendron
- Chengiopanax
- Crepinella
- Cussonia
- Dendropanax
- Didymopanax
- Eleutherococcus
- Fatsia
- Frodinia
- Gamblea
- Harmsiopanax
- Hedera
- Heptapleurum
- Heteropanax
- Hydrocotyloideae
- Kalopanax
- Macropanax
- Merrilliopanax
- Meryta
- Metapanax
- Motherwellia
- Munroidendron
- Neocussonia
- Oplopanax
- Oreopanax
- Osmoxylon
- Panax
- Pentapanax
- Plerandra
- Polyscias
- Pseudopanax
- Raukaua
- Schefflera
- Sciadodendron
- Sciodaphyllum
- Seemannaralia
- Sinopanax
- Tetrapanax
- Trevesia
- Woodburnia
- x Fatshedera lizei
- × fatshedera




















































