Sorbus hupehensis (Hupeh rowan or Hubei rowan; ) is a species of rowan native to central and western China (between Qinghai and Gansu in the west, Yunnan in the south, Jiangxi in the southeast, and Shandong in the east). It is a small deciduous tree growing to 5–10 m tall, with grey-brown to purplish-brown bark. The branches and shoots are slender. The leaves are green above, paler beneath, 10–15 cm long, pinnate with 7-17 narrow oval leaflets 3–5 cm long and 1–1.8 cm broad, with an acute apex, and serrated margins. They change to orange or red in autumn. The flowers are 5–7 mm diameter, with five white petals and 20 yellowish-white stamens; they are produced in corymbs 6–10 cm diameter in late spring to early summer. The fruit is a pome 5–8 mm diameter, bright pink with persistent sepals, maturing in late autumn. There are two varieties: Sorbus hupehensis var. hupehensis. Leaves with 9-17 narrow leaflets. Most of the species' range. Sorbus hupehensis var. paucijuga (D.K.Zang & P.C.Huang) L.T.Lu. Leaves with 7-9 broad leaflets. Shandong Province.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Sorbus hupehensis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens1
Marker genes3
GenBank sequences10
eDNA detections1
Countries1
The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
★matK2★rbcL5★ITS3
plant barcodefungal barcode
07Deep time~6.34 Ma lineage
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
DNA clock origin6.34 Ma TimeTree
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
DNA clock origin
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type702 records
Wild obs. + sensor8
Museum / vouchered685
Cultivated / captive3
Other6
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO696 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy100% within 1 km
≤100 m 4
4 georeferenced · 4 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor8
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Coordinate accuracy22% within 1 km
≤100 m 1≤1 km 1≤10 km 7
9 georeferenced · 676 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence685
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Coordinate accuracy
no georeferenced coordinates · 3 records without
Open the mapnot free-living3
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions32 of 45 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Beijing, CN
182
Chengdu, CN
137
Yangling, CN
105
Chengdu, CN
36
Wuhan, CN
28
Xining, CN
25
Guilin, CN
22
Nanjing, CN
13
Xian, CN
11
Lanzhou, CN
10
Guangzhou, CN
8
Xian, CN
8
Seoul, KR
8
Kunming, CN
8
Zhengzhou, CN
7
Nanchong, CN
7
Chinese Academy of Forestrylocation not on record
6
Wuhan, CN
6
WNNUlocation not on record
6
Central China Normal Universitylocation not on record
5
Awka, NG
5
GMBAlocation not on record
5
Davis, US
4
Tianjin Natural History Museumlocation not on record
4
South Kensington, GB
3
Philadelphia, US
3
Rotorua, NZ
3
nlocation not on record
2
Zhuzhou, CN
2
Northeastern Forestry Universitylocation not on record
1
Yunnan Universitylocation not on record
1
Institute for Agricultural Bacteriology and Fermentation Biologylocation not on record
1
Kew, GB
1
Christchurch, NZ
1
Bronx, US
1
Nanjing, CN
1
Bangkok, TH
1
Saint Louis, US
1
Anhui Normal Universitylocation not on record
1
Southwest Forestry Collegelocation not on record
1
Shanghai, CN
1
Cambridge, US
1
Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record
1
Auckland, NZ
1
Central China Agricultural Universitylocation not on record
1
45 institutions · 685 of 685 vouchered records shown
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
09Environmental DNA1 detections
Where the DNA of Sorbus hupehensis was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Detections DNA found1
Studies independent surveys1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 1 detections have coordinates
Open the map0 countries0
How strong is each trace?
DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility702 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗