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Sorbus maderensis; photograph (c) fmunoz, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) fmunoz, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2018-04-24

Sorbus maderensis (Lowe) Dode

Rosaceae · Madeira

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Sorbus maderensis (Lowe) Dode: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, Decne.

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Summary

Sorbus maderensis is a species of rowan in the family Rosaceae that is endemic to Madeira. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Sorbus maderensis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Sorbus

Sorbus is a genus of over 100 species of trees and shrubs in the rose family, Rosaceae. Species of Sorbus (s.str.) are commonly known as rowan or mountain-ash. The genus used to include species commonly known as whitebeam, chequer tree and service tree that are now classified in other genera. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Sorbus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 5 of the 9 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeMadeira · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker32.724, -17.187 · in the densest population, 9 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 9 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker 24 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 5 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 9 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) fmunoz, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).

Other Sorbus 56 in the reference

Sorbus americana Sorbus americana American mountain-ash Photo: CC0, author not statedSorbus aucuparia Sorbus aucuparia Rowan Photo: CC BY, Chris Fluit Sorbus bissetii Rosaceae Sorbus californica Sorbus californica California mountain-ash Photo: CC BY, DenaSorbus cashmiriana Sorbus cashmiriana Kashmir Rowan Photo: CC BY-SA, AcabashiSorbus commixta Sorbus commixta Japanese rowan Photo: CC BY, Yoshihiro TokueSorbus decora Sorbus decora Northern mountain-ash Photo: CC BY, Eric LambSorbus discolor Sorbus discolor Rosaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, SalicynaSorbus eburnea Sorbus eburnea Rosaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz Sorbus fansipanensis Rosaceae Sorbus filipes Sorbus filipes Rosaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Averater Sorbus foliolosa Rosaceae all 57 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Sorbus aucuparia subsp. maderensis; Pyrus aucuparia var. maderensis; Pyrus maderensis; Sorbus aucuparia var. maderensis. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Rosaceae
Described by
(Lowe) Dode
Native to
Madeira
Wild records
9 in range · 1 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 7470443 is Sorbus maderensis Decne.; Kew accepts Sorbus maderensis (Lowe) Dode, and the name is cited as Kew accepts it; its synonyms and common names are read from GBIF's Sorbus maderensis (Lowe) Dode (3012189), which GBIF files under Sorbus aucuparia subsp. maderensis (Lowe) Mc All. (10560332) too
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-225 read from GBIF's Sorbus maderensis (Lowe) Dode (3012189), which GBIF files under Sorbus aucuparia subsp. maderensis (Lowe) Mc All. (10560332)
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by its label; its IPNI identifier 741833-1 is Kew's for Sorbus maderensis (Lowe) Dode
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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