Genus: Sambucus
Genus description:
Small trees, shrubs or herbs. Stems with large pith. Leaves pinnate, deduous, stipulate or exstipulate. Flowers (3-)5-merous, small, actinomorphic, in cymose corymbs or panicles. Calyx 5-lobed. Corolla rotate. Stames 5. Stigma sessile, 3- to 5-lobed. Ovary 3- to 5-locular. Fruit a drupe with 3-5 compressed, cartilaginous pyrenes
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