• Family : Caprifoliaceae
  (Honeysuckle Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : RASHINA FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Viburnaceae
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Sambucus wightiana Wall. ex Wight & Arn.
• Common name : Kashmir Elder, Dwarf Elder
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : It is gregarious and fairly common in the inner Himalayan ranges
• Comments / notes : Fruit, roots and leaves used medicinally.
• Key identification features : Usually forming large gregarious clumps 1-1.5 m high, with green stems, large pinnate leaves, and with terminal flat-topped clusters of very numerous tiny white or cream flowers. Inflorescence 5-10 cm across, enlarging to 25 cm in fruit, with 3-5 primary branches which are further irregularly branched. Flowers c. 3 mm across; corolla with 5 spreading blunt lobes and a very short tube; stamens exserted. Leaves 15-30 cm; leaflets 5-9, lanceolate often long-pointed, 5-20 cm, sharply toothed; stipules leaf-like, toothed. Fruit globular 4-5 mm, orange or red, then Turning black
• Flower, Fruit : June-July
• Distribution :
  • Kashmir : Kashmir
• Native : India, Pakistan, West Himalaya
• Exotic/Native : Native
• Literature : Oleg P & Adam S (1984). Flowers of Himalaya. Oxford University Press: 600
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Navendu Page, Deepak Kumar (2020). Pan India Bouquets. http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/pan/plants.php?name=Sambucus wightiana. Downloaded on 7 December 2023.

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