Merrilliopanax

{{Short description|Genus of plants}}

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|taxon = Merrilliopanax

|authority = H.L.Li

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision = *Merrilliopanax alpinus

• Merrilliopanax listeri
• Merrilliopanax membranifolius

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Merrilliopanax is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araliaceae, comprising 3 species of the subgenus Airampora. They are found in western China, Myanmar, northeast India, Bhutan, and Nepal.{{cite web|url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=120304 |title=Merrilliopanax |author=Qibai Xiang & Porter P. Lowry |work=Flora of China |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA |accessdate=16 July 2014}}

The genus name of Merrilliopanax is in honour of Elmer Drew Merrill (1876–1956), an American botanist and taxonomist,{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}} and also panax meaning "all-healing" in Greek.{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=978-1845337315 }} The genus was first described and published in Sargentia Vol.2 on page 62 in 1942.{{cite web |title=Merrilliopanax H.L.Li {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:3045-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=25 October 2021 |language=en}}