白簕Acanthopanax trifoliatus (Linn.) Merr.

别名：白厖;白勒;五加皮;白花簕;刺三加;刺五加;刚毛白簕;三加皮;三叶五加;白刺藤;白簕花;

科名：五加科 Araliaceae

属名：五加属 Acanthopanax

《中国植物志》第54卷112页
  22．白簕（种子植物名称）鹅掌簕、禾掌簕（广东土名），三加皮（湖南、浙江土名），三叶五加（广西植物名录）图版14: 9-11
  Acanthopanax trifoliatus (Linn.) Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1: suppl. 217. 1906; Schneid. in Ill. Handb. Laubholzk. 2: 427. 1909; Harms & Rehd. in Sargent, Pl. Wils. 2: 563. 1916; Harms in Mitt. Deutsch. Dendr. Ges. 27: 26. 1918; 钟心煊, 科学社丛刊1: 188. 1924; Merr. in Lingnan Sci. Journ. 5: 140. 1927; W. W. Smith in Notes Bot. Gard. Edinb. 17: 172, 272. 1929-30; Hand.- Mazz. Symb. Sin. 7: 698. 1933; Li in Sargentia 2: 80. 1942 & Woody Fl. Taiwan 664. f. 270. 1963; 侯宽昭等, 广州植物志457. f. 249. 1956; 裴鉴等, 江苏南部种子植物手册538. f. 875. 1959;林来官, 福建师院学报第一期下卷154. 1959;中国高等植物图鉴2: 1037. f. 3803. 1972——Zanthoxylum trifoliatum Linn. Sp. Pl. 270. 1753——Panax aculeatus Ait. Hort. Kew 3: 448. 1789——Plectronia chinensis Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 162. 1790——Acanthopanax aculeatum (Ait.) H. Witte in Ann. Hort. Bot. Pays.-Bas. 4: 89. 1861: Seem. in Journ. Bot. 5: 238 (Revis. Heder. 86. 1868) 1867; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2: 726. 1879; Franch. Pl. David. 1: 146. 1884; Forb. & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23: 339. 1888; Harms in Fnbl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3 (8) : 50. 1894; Harms ex Diels in Bot. Jahrb. 29: 489. 1900; Vib. in Lecomte, Fl. Gen. Indo-Chine 2: 1166. 1923——Acanthopanax sepium Seem. 1. c. 5: 239 (Revis. Heder. 86. 1868) 1867.

《Flora of China》 Vol. 13 (2007)
Eleutherococcus trifoliatus  (Linnaeus) S. Y. Hu
白簕   bai le
Zanthoxylum trifoliatum Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 270. 1753; Acanthopanax aculeatus (Aiton) Witte; A. sepium Seemann; A. trifoliatus (Linnaeus) Merrill; Panax aculeatus Aiton.
Shrubs, scandent or climbers, to 7 m tall. Branches with scattered, recurved prickles. Petiole 2-6 cm, glabrous, prickly; petiolules 2-8 mm; leaflets 3(-5), ovate, elliptic-ovate, or oblong, 4-10 × 2-4.5 cm, papery, adaxially glabrous or slightly setose on midvein and veins, secondary veins 5 or 6 pairs, base cuneate, margin serrulate, apex acute or acuminate. Inflorescence a terminal raceme of umbels or a compound umbel, borne on leafy shoots, with 3-10 umbels; peduncles 2-7 cm; pedicels 1-2 cm. Calyx with 5 teeth, glabrous. Ovary 2-carpellate; styles united to middle. Fruit globose, laterally compressed, 3-4 mm; style bifid, ca. 1.5 mm. Fl. Aug-Nov, fr. Sep-Dec.
Scrub fields, roadsides, forest margins, in valleys or on mountain slopes; below 1000 m in E and 3200 m in W part of range. S Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, S Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [India, Japan, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam].
This species is used medicinally.

Material from Guangxi with 3-foliolate leaves, generally entire leaflet margins, and more rounded leaflet bases may represent a new infraspecific taxon.