Viburnum bracteatum: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Dipsacales
- Family
- Viburnaceae
- Genus
- Viburnum
- Species
- Viburnum bracteatum
- Scientific Name
- Viburnum bracteatum
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Viburnum bracteatum
Viburnum bracteatum is a species of flowering plant in the Adoxaceae known by the common names bracted arrowwood and limerock arrowwood. It is native to the southeastern United States, where it is limited to Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee. Some authors include Viburnum ozarkense in this species, which would expand its distribution westward. Other authors include V. ozarkense in Viburnum molle, or retain it as a distinct species.
Viburnum bracteatum is a deciduous shrub with spreading and arching branches reaching up to 3 meters tall. The bark is smooth and gray in color. The oppositely arranged leaves have blades up to 12 centimeters long. They have toothed edges, with about one tooth per centimeter. The blades are borne on short petioles. The inflorescence is 4 to 6 centimeters wide with conspicuous bracts at the base. The flower has a circular corolla of five white petals about 8 millimeters across and five stamens tipped with yellow anthers. The fruit is a bluish black drupe about a centimeter wide. The fruits are eaten by birds, small mammals, and deer.
This plant grows in wooded areas with limestone substrates. The overstory includes several types of oak and Carya ovata var. australis.
There are about eleven occurrences of this rare plant, but only five are considered to be viable. It is threatened by limestone mining. This activity has destroyed or partially destroyed populations in the past.
...Viburnum bracteatum in languages:
- Chinese
- 苞片莢蒾
- Czech
- kalina listenovitá
- English
- Bracted Arrowwood
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
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- Viburnum acutifolium
- Viburnum alabamense
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- Viburnum arboricolum
- Viburnum atrocyaneum
- Viburnum australe
- Viburnum ayavacense
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- Viburnum blandum
- Viburnum boninsimense
- Viburnum brachyandrum
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- Viburnum buddleifolium
- Viburnum burejaeticum
- Viburnum carlcephalum
- Viburnum carlesii
- Viburnum carolinianum
- Viburnum cassinoides
- Viburnum caudatum
- Viburnum chinshanense
- Viburnum chunii
- Viburnum ciliatum
- Viburnum cinnamomifolium
- Viburnum coriaceum
- Viburnum corylifolium
- Viburnum costaricanum
- Viburnum cotinifolium
- Viburnum cylindricum
- Viburnum dalzielii
- Viburnum davidii
- Viburnum deamii
- Viburnum dentatum
- Viburnum dilatatum
- Viburnum discolor
- Viburnum disjunctum
- Viburnum divaricatum
- Viburnum edule
- Viburnum elatum
- Viburnum ellipticum
- Viburnum erosum
- Viburnum erubescens
- Viburnum farreri
- Viburnum finale
- Viburnum foetidum
- Viburnum fordiae
- Viburnum fragrans
- Viburnum furcatum
- Viburnum glomeratum
- Viburnum grandiflorum
- Viburnum hallii
- Viburnum hanceanum
- Viburnum hartwegii
- Viburnum henryi
- Viburnum hoanglienense
- Viburnum hondurense
- Viburnum incarum
- Viburnum inopinatum
- Viburnum integrifolium
- Viburnum japonicum
- Viburnum jelskii
- Viburnum jucundum
- Viburnum juddii
- Viburnum lantana
- Viburnum lantanoides
- Viburnum lasiophyllum
- Viburnum lautum
- Viburnum lentago
- Viburnum loeseneri
- Viburnum lutescens
- Viburnum luzonicum
- Viburnum macrocephalum
- Viburnum microcarpum
- Viburnum microphyllum
- Viburnum molinae
- Viburnum molle
- Viburnum mongolicum
- Viburnum mortonianum
- Viburnum mullaha
- Viburnum nervosum
- Viburnum nitidum
- Viburnum nudum
- Viburnum obovatum
- Viburnum obtusatum
- Viburnum odoratissimum
- Viburnum oliganthum
- Viburnum opulus
- Viburnum orientale
- Viburnum parvifolium
- Viburnum phlebotrichum
- Viburnum pichinchense
- Viburnum plicatum
- Viburnum propinquum
- Viburnum prunifolium
- Viburnum punctatum
- Viburnum rafinesqueanum
- Viburnum recognitum
- Viburnum rhytidophyllum
- Viburnum rufidulum
- Viburnum rugosum
- Viburnum sambucinum
- Viburnum sargentii
- Viburnum scabrellum
- Viburnum schensianum
- Viburnum seemenii
- Viburnum sempervirens
- Viburnum setigerum
- Viburnum sieboldii
- Viburnum stellato-tomentosum
- Viburnum stenocalyx
- Viburnum subpubescens
- Viburnum sulcatum
- Viburnum suspensum
- Viburnum sympodiale
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- Viburnum tashiroi
- Viburnum tengyuehense
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- Viburnum tinoides
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- Viburnum toronis
- Viburnum treleasei
- Viburnum tridentatum
- Viburnum triphyllum
- Viburnum undulatum
- Viburnum urceolatum
- Viburnum utile
- Viburnum veitchii
- Viburnum venustum
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