Genus of flowering plants in the rose family Rosaceae
Sorbus
European rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) with fruit
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Clade:
Angiosperms
Clade:
Eudicots
Clade:
Rosids
Order:
Rosales
Family:
Rosaceae
Subfamily:
Amygdaloideae
Tribe:
Maleae
Subtribe:
Malinae
Genus:
Sorbus L.
Subgenera
Sorbus
Aria
Micromeles
Cormus
Torminaria
Chamaemespilus
Sorbus is a genus of over 100 species of trees and shrubs in the rose family, Rosaceae. Species of Sorbus (s.l.) are commonly known as whitebeam, rowan, mountain-ash and service tree. The exact number of species is disputed depending on the circumscription of the genus, and also due to the number of apomictic microspecies, which some treat as distinct species, but others group in a smaller number of variable species. Recent treatments[1][2][3][4] classify Sorbus in a narrower sense to include only the pinnate leaved species of subgenus Sorbus, raising several of the other subgenera to generic rank.
Sorbus is not closely related to the true ash trees which belong to the genus Fraxinus, although the leaves are superficially similar.
^Robertson, K. R., J. B. Phipps, J. R. Rohrer, and P. G. Smith. 1991. A Synopsis of Genera in Maloideae (Rosaceae). Systematic Botany16: 376–394.
^McAllister, H. 2005. The Genus Sorbus: Mountain Ash and Other Rowans. Richmond, Surrey, UK: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
^Potter, D., T. Eriksson, R. C. Evans, S.-H. Oh, J. E. E. Smedmark, D.R. Morgan, M. S. Kerr, and C. S. Campbell. (2007). Phylogeny and classification of Rosaceae. Plant Systematics and Evolution. 266(1–2): 5–43.
^Campbell C. S., R. C. Evans, D. R. Morgan, T. A. Dickinson, and M. P. Arsenault. 2007. Phylogeny of subtribe Pyrinae (formerly the Maloideae, Rosaceae):
Limited resolution of a complex evolutionary history. Pl. Syst. Evol.266: 119–145.
Sorbus is a genus of over 100 species of trees and shrubs in the rose family, Rosaceae. Species of Sorbus (s.l.) are commonly known as whitebeam, rowan...
(syn. Sorbus aria), give rise to many endemic variants in the UK. The Latin name sorbus was borrowed into Old English as syrfe. The Latin name sorbus is...
which is of early Pliocene age. The binomial name Sorbus aucuparia is composed of the Latin words sorbus for service tree and aucuparia, which derives from...
Latin sorbus; because of its fruit and has nothing to do with the Slavic ethnic groups known as the Sorbs and Serbs. Wilson, B. (2018). "Sorbus domestica"...
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bright red berry which is 1 cm (0.4 in) wide. It is a diploid hybrid between Sorbus aucuparia and the diploid Aria edulis. It is rare in the wild but occurs...
fjords, such as the Qinngua Valley. Sorbus decora is very similar to the closely related American mountain-ash (Sorbus americana). Like the American mountain-ash...
Sorbus scopulina, also known as Greene's mountain-ash, is a species of rowan that is native to western North America, primarily in the Rocky Mountains...
Sakhalin are sometimes distinguished as Sorbus commixta' var. 'sachalinensis, with larger leaflets up to 9 cm long. Sorbus commixta is grown as an ornamental...
gardeners are hybrids. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sorbus scalaris. "Sorbus scalaris Koehne | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants...
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Sorbus wallichii is a species of plant in the family Rosaceae. It is found in China, India, and Nepal. World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1998). "Sorbus...
population is thought to be increasing. Rivers, M.C. & Beech, E. (2017). "Sorbus bristoliensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T34741A81171372...
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