中文名（Chinese Name）：粉团
学名（Scientific Name）：Viburnum plicatum Thunb.
英文名（English Common Name）：Japanese snowball
别名（Chinese Common Name）：雪球荚蒾
异名（Synonym）：Viburnum tomentosum f. plenum (Miq.) Rehder；Viburnum tomentosum var. plicatum (Thunb.) Maxim.；Viburnum plicatum var. plenum Miq.；Viburnum tomentosum Thunb.；Viburnum plicatum 'Sterile'
科属（Family & Genus）：忍冬科（Caprifoliaceae）荚蒾属
形态特征（Description）：落叶灌木，高达3米；当年小枝浅黄褐色，四角状，被由黄褐色簇状毛组成的绒毛，二年生小枝灰褐色或灰黑色，稍具棱角或否，散生圆形皮孔，老枝圆筒形，近水平状开展。冬芽有1对披针状三角形鳞片。叶纸质，宽卵形、圆状倒卵形或倒卵形，稀近圆形，长4-10厘米，顶端圆或急狭而微凸尖，基部圆形或宽楔形，很少微心形，边缘有不整齐三角状锯齿，上面疏被短伏毛，中脉毛较密，下面密被绒毛，或有时仅侧脉有毛，侧脉10-12 (-13) 对，笔直伸至齿端，上面常深凹陷，下面显著凸起，小脉横列，并行，紧密，成明显的长方形格纹；叶柄长1-2厘米，被薄绒毛；无托叶。聚伞花序伞形式，球形，直径4-8厘米，常生于具1对叶的短侧枝上，全部由大型的不孕花组成，总花梗长1.5-4厘米，稍有棱角，被黄褐色簇状毛，第一级辐射枝6-8条，花生于第四级辐射枝上；萼筒倒圆锥形，无毛或有时被簇状毛，萼齿卵形，顶钝圆；花冠白色，辐状，直径1.5-3厘米，裂片有时仅4枚，倒卵形或近圆形，顶圆形，大小常不相等；雌、雄蕊均不发育。花期4-5月。
分布（Distribution）：产湖北及贵州，栽培广泛，日本也有。
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引自中国植物志英文版FOC Vol. 19 Page 573, 594
Viburnum plicatum Thunberg, Trans. Linn. Soc. London. 2: 332. 1794.
粉团 fen tuan | Adoxaceae  | Viburnum
Shrubs, deciduous, to 3 m tall. Bark light brown. Branchlets of current year densely or sparsely yellowish brown stellate-pubescent; branchlets of previous year gray-brownish or gray-blackish, terete, sparsely pubescent or subglabrous, with dispersed, small, rounded lenticels. Winter buds lanceolate-triangular, with a pair of adnate scales; scales sparsely yellowish brown stellate-pubescent. Leaves always opposite, not clustered at apices of branchlets; stipules absent; petiole green, robust, 1-2 cm, thinly stellate-pubescent; leaf blade green when young, broadly ovate, orbicular-obovate, or obovate, rarely suborbicular, 4-12 × (2-)3-7 cm, papery, abaxially densely tomentose or sometimes only hairy on lateral veins, adaxially sparsely adpressed pubescent, more densely so on midvein, midvein raised abaxially, lateral veins 6-12(-17)-jugate, pinnate, slightly arched, branched, ending in teeth, conspicuously raised abaxially, often deeply impressed adaxially, veinlets transverse, slightly raised abaxially, slightly impressed adaxially, not lobed, base rounded or broadly cuneate, very slightly cordate, without glands, margin irregularly serrate, apex rounded or abruptly narrowed and slightly mucronate. Flowers appearing after leaves; inflorescence a compound umbel-like cyme, globose or flattened, at apices of short lateral branchlets with 1 pair of leaves, 5-10 cm in diam.; rays whorled; first node of inflorescence with 3-8 rays, dense, minutely or densely yellowish brown stellate-pubescent, totally composed of large sterile flowers, or of fertile flowers yet with 6-8 large sterile radiant flowers; peduncles 1.5-4 cm; bracts caducous, leaflike, green, lanceolate, 1.5-6 mm, sparsely hairy; bracteoles scalelike. Flowers on rays of 4th order, not fragrant, sessile or shortly pedicellate. Sterile flowers: calyx like fertile flowers; corolla white, rotate, 1.5-4 cm in diam.; lobes obovate or suborbicular, sometimes only 4, often unequal in size with 1 very small lobe, apex rounded; stamens and pistils not developed. Fertile flowers: calyx green or reddish; tube obconical, ca. 1.5 mm, glabrous or stellate-hairy; lobes triangular, ca. 0.5 mm, glabrous, apex ± acute; corolla yellow-white, rotate, 2-3 mm in diam., glabrous; tube 1-1.5 mm; lobes spreading or slightly recurved, broadly ovate, ca. as long as wide, apex rounded, margin entire; stamens exceeding corolla, inserted near base of corolla; filaments 3-4.5 mm; anthers yellow, oblong or suborbicular, ca. 1 mm; styles slightly exceeding calyx lobes; stigmas 3-lobed. Fruit initially turning red, maturing black, broadly ovoid-orbicular or obovoid-orbicular, 5-6.5 × 3-4 mm, base rounded, apex rounded, glabrous; pyrenes compressed, ellipsoid, 4-5.5 × 2.5-3 mm, with a broad ventral groove, both ends obtuse. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Aug-Sep. 2n = 18, 72.
Mixed forests, thickets; also cultivated; 200-3000 m. Anhui, Fujian, N Guangdong, NE Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, S Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Japan].
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