Aria umbellata(Desf.) Sennikov & Kurtto

WFO wfo-0001426668 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Aria umbellata, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. a Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-09-14 / obs. 51309450
Aria umbellata, photographed by Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky)
fig. b Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161253052
Aria umbellata, photographed by Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky)
fig. c Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161253046
Aria umbellata, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. d Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 51309435
Aria umbellata, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. e Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 51309474

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Aria umbellata is native: Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania IraqLebanon-SyriaTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaBulgariaGreeceKritiNW. Balkan Pen.Romania
Native distribution of Aria umbellata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Greece GRC
Kriti KRI
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
Iraq IRQ ASIA-TEMPERATE
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 28 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Aria flabellifolia (Spach) M.Roem.
  • Crataegus flabellifolia Spach
  • Crataegus umbellata Desf.
  • Hahnia aria var. flabellifolia (Spach) Dippel
  • Pyrus aria var. flabellifolia (Spach) Franch.
  • Pyrus meridionalis prol. flabellifolia (Spach) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Pyrus turcica (Zinserl.) M.F.Fay & Christenh.
  • Pyrus umbellifera M.F.Fay & Christenh.
  • Sorbus aria subsp. koevessii Pénzes
  • Sorbus aria subsp. umbellata (Desf.) Hayek
  • Sorbus aria var. flabellifolia (Spach) Wenz.
  • Sorbus aria var. kovassii (Pénzes) Stoj., Stef. & Kitan.
  • Sorbus aria var. umbellata (Desf.) Halácsy
  • Sorbus banatica (Jáv.) Prodan
  • Sorbus cretica f. banatica Jáv.
  • Sorbus cretica subsp. banatica (Jáv.) Jáv.
  • Sorbus cretica var. banatica (Jáv.) Buia
  • Sorbus flabellifolia (Spach) S.Schauer
  • Sorbus graeca var. banatica (Jáv.) Kovanda
  • Sorbus graeca var. turcica (Zinserl.) Gabrieljan
  • Sorbus turcica Zinserl.
  • Sorbus umbellata (Desf.) Fritsch
  • Sorbus umbellata f. cuneata Diap.
  • Sorbus umbellata subsp. banatica (Jáv.) Kárpáti

and 4 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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