Sorbus L.
(whitebeams)

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Sorbus aucuparia Rowan, Mountain Ash	Species		35 images
Sorbus austriaca group	Species group			1 ident. refs
Sorbus domestica Service-tree	Species			1 ident. refs
Sorbus hibernica Irish Whitebeam	Species			1 ident. refs
Sorbus torminalis Wild Service-tree	Species		10 images
[Sorbus aria agg.] whitebeam, common whitebeam	Informal	3 subtaxa		6 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Sorbus (whitebeams)
Family	ROSACEAE (roses and fruit trees)
Order	ROSALES (roses, elms, nettles, hops, buckthorns and figs)
Subclass	EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Class	MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
Phylum	TRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
Kingdom	PLANTAE (plants)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Rich, T.C.G., Green, D., Houston, L., Lepsi, M., Ludwig, S. & J. Pellicer, J.	2014	British Sorbus (Rosaceae): six new species, two hybrids and a new subgenus	New Journal of Botany Vol 4 (1): 2-12.
	Rich, T.C.G.		Sorbus	Yeo, P.F. Acaena, taxa with spherical heads, Plant Crib 2012

Sorbus (whitebeams) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Sorbus (whitebeams)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 246 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Sorbus (whitebeams)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)