Viburnum ellipticum
Species of plant
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Viburnum ellipticum, the common viburnum[3] or oval-leaved viburnum, is a species of shrub in family Viburnaceae.
| Viburnum ellipticum | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Spermatophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Dipsacales |
| Family: | Viburnaceae |
| Genus: | Viburnum |
| Species: | V. ellipticum |
| Binomial name | |
| Viburnum ellipticum | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Viburnum ellipticum var. macrocarpum Suksd. | |
The shrub has deciduous leaves with oval or rounded blades 2 to 6 centimetres (3⁄4 to 2+1⁄4 in) long. The leaf blade usually has three main longitudinal veins and a shallowly toothed edge. The inflorescence is a flat-topped cyme of many unpleasant-smelling white flowers, each 6 to 8 millimetres (1⁄4 to 5⁄16 in) wide with five petals and five whiskery, white stamens.[4] The fruit is a drupe about 1 cm long, red, blackening with age.[4]
It is native to the western United States from Washington to central California, where it occurs in forests and mountain chaparral habitat.[4]
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