Taxonavigation

Familia: Adoxaceae
Genera: Adoxa – Oreinotinus – Sambucus – Sinadoxa – Tetradoxa – Viburnum

Name

Adoxaceae E. Mey., Preuss. Pfl.-Gatt.: 198. 1839, nom. cons.

• Type genus: Adoxa  L. (1753)

Synonyms

• Sambucaceae Batsch ex Borkh., Bot. Wörterb. 2: 322. 1797, nom. cons. prop.
• Tinaceae Martynov, Tekhno-Bot. Slovar: 635. 1820, nom. rej. prop.
• Viburnaceae Raf. in Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. Bruxelles 6: 87. Oct-Dec 1820, nom. cons. prop.
• Opulaceae Berchtold & Presl, Přir. Rostlin, 2(23*): 91, 92. 1825
  

Note: The Plant List is unusual in maintaining Oreinotinus as a segregate from Viburnum. In addition, APGIV wishes to maintain this family over Viburnaceae in order to help maintain nomenclatural stability.

References

• Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. 2016. An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 181(1): 1–20. DOI: 10.1111/boj.12385 Reference page. 
• Hassler, M. 2019. Adoxaceae. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World (2019). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi, J., Penev L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Aug. 18.
• International Plant Names Index. 2014. Adoxaceae. Published online. Accessed July 14 2014.
• Reveal J. 2008. Proposals to conserve the name Viburnaceae (Magnoliophyta), the name Adoxaceae against Viburnaceae, a “superconservation” proposal, and as an alternative, the name Sambucaceae. Taxon 57: 303.
• Stevens, P.F. 2001 onwards. Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 14, July 2017 [and more or less continuously updated since]. Online. Reference page. 
• The Plant List 2013. Adoxaceae in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2014 July 12.
• GBIF.

Vernacular names

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