Sambucus javanica
General description 2
Herbs, suffrutescent, or low shrubs, 1-2 m tall. Stem obviously striate; pith white; lenticels inconspicuous. Leaves imparipinnate; stipules leaflike or sometimes reduced to blue glands; lateral leaflets 2-3-pairs, alternate or opposite, narrowly ovate, 5-15 cm long, 2-5 cm wide, adaxially sparsely pubescent when young, base obtuse and oblique, margin serrulate, often with several glandular teeth from below middle nearly to base, apex long acuminate; terminal leaflet ovate or obovate, base cuneate, sometimes connected with next lower leaflets, basal pair of leaflets shortly petiolulate; stipules of leaflets absent. Inflorescences terminal, compound umbellate cymes, lax, pedunculate, with leaflike bracts at base of peduncle, with 3-6-slender rays, with sparse yellow pubescence. Some flowers modified into persistent urceolate nectaries. Calyx tube urceolate, lobes triangular; corolla white, connate at base. Anthers yellow or purple. Ovary locules 3, styles short or nearly absent; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit red, nearly globose; pyrenes 3-4, ovoid, verrucate.
Sources and Credits
- (c) Dick Culbert, some rights reserved (CC BY), https://www.flickr.com/photos/92252798@N07/13912633864/
- (c) Wen, Jun, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/16147876
