Sorbus globosa Yu & Tsai

One of us (Spongberg) believes that Sorbus paniculata is a related taxon and could be placed here.

Sorbus globosa was lectotypified (Sun, M. & Q. Lin. 2008. Guihaia 28(3): 295) after publication of the family treatment for the Flora of China.

Trees, rarely shrubs, to 7 m tall. Branchlets blackish brown when old, terete, rusty brown pubescent when young, soon glabrous, with few small lenticels; buds ovoid, 5–8 mm, apex ± acute; scales several, glabrous. Leaves simple; petiole 1–1.5 cm, sparsely puberulous or glabrous; leaf blade pale green abaxially, dark green adaxially, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 8–10 × 3–4.5 cm, lateral veins 8–11 pairs, anastomosing toward margin, abaxially rusty brown pubescent along veins, gradually glabrescent, adaxially glabrous, base cuneate, rarely subrounded, margin sparsely sharply serrate, nearly entire basally, apex acuminate. Inflorescences paniculately compound corymbose, 3–6 × 2–5 cm, 15–21-flowered; rachis, pedicels, and hypanthium abaxially rust-brown pubescent. Pedicel 5–9 mm. Flowers 5–8 mm in diam. Hypanthium campanulate. Sepals reflexed, ovate-triangular, 2–2.5 mm, apex obtuse. Petals white, ovate to obovate, 4–5 × 3–3.5 mm, sparsely rusty brown pilose, base shortly clawed, apex obtuse. Stamens 20, unequal in length, longer or shorter than petals. Styles 2 or 3, not exceeding stamens, glabrous, connate basally. Fruit brown, globose, 1–1.2 cm in diam., 2- or 3-loculed, with orbicular small lenticels, with an annular scar. Fl. Mar–May, fr. Aug–Sep.

Guangxi, Guizhou, W Yunnan [N Myanmar].

Slope forests, shrub thickets; 1000--3000 m.

Aria globosa (T. T. Yü & H. T. Tsai) H. Ohashi & H. Iketani.

Sorbus globosa là loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa hồng. Loài này được T.T. Yu & Tsai miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1936.

圆果花楸（学名：Sorbus globosa）是蔷薇科花楸属的植物，是中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的广西、贵州、云南等地，生长于海拔1,000米至2,100米的地区，一般生长在丛林中，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。