- Family: Viburnaceae Raf.
Sambucus L.
[FTEA]
Caprifoliaceae, B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1968
- Morphology General Habit
- Small trees, shrubs or rarely perennial subshrubby herbs, mostly evil-smelling
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves pinnately or bipinnately compound; leaflets usually serrate; stipules absent, small or occasionally conspicuous, sometimes reduced to clusters of glands
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescences usually terminal, corymbose, cymose or thyrsoid
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers small, regular
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla white or yellowish, rotate, the lobes imbricate or valvate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 5; filaments slender; anthers dehiscing outwards
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary 3–5-locular, with a single pendulous ovule in each locule; style wanting, the stigma sessile and 3–5-lobed
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit a berry-like drupe with 3–5 1-seeded pyrenes
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds with a membranous testa and fleshy endosperm.
Native to:
Afghanistan, Alabama, Albania, Aleutian Is., Algeria, Altay, Amur, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Assam, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Cambodia, Canary Is., Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colombia, Colorado, Corse, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Hainan, Honduras, Hungary, Illinois, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Jawa, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Kazan-retto, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Lesser Sunda Is., Madeira, Manchuria, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Nevada, New Guinea, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, North Caucasus, Northwest European R, Ogasawara-shoto, Pakistan, Palestine, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Qinghai, Queensland, Romania, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Sicilia, South Australia, South European Russi, Spain, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Utah, Venezuela, Vermont, Victoria, Vietnam, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yugoslavia
Introduced into:
Bermuda, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Burundi, Cayman Is., Chile Central, Chile South, Cuba, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., Falkland Is., Finland, Gulf of Guinea Is., Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Norway, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Sweden, Tasmania, Trinidad-Tobago, Uzbekistan, Windward Is., Zaïre
- Sambucus adnata Wall. ex DC.
- Sambucus africana Standl.
- Sambucus australasica (Lindl.) Fritsch
- Sambucus australis Cham. & Schltdl.
- Sambucus canadensis L.
- Sambucus cerulea Raf.
- Sambucus ebulus L.
- Sambucus gaudichaudiana DC.
- Sambucus javanica Reinw. ex Blume
- Sambucus kamtschatica E.L.Wolf
- Sambucus lanceolata R.Br.
- Sambucus mexicana C.Presl ex DC.
- Sambucus nigra L.
- Sambucus palmensis Link
- Sambucus pendula Nakai
- Sambucus peruviana Kunth
- Sambucus racemosa L.
- Sambucus sibirica Nakai
- Sambucus sieboldiana (Miq.) Graebn.
- Sambucus × strumpfii Gutte
- Sambucus tigranii Troitsky
- Sambucus wightiana Wall. ex Wight & Arn.
- Sambucus williamsii Hance
Sambucus L. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Sp. Pl.: 269 (1753)
Literature
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 130 (1754)
- Sp. Pl.: 269 (1753)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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