''Scandosorbus'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of ...

s in the rose family,

Rosaceae Rosaceae (), the rose family, is a medium-sized family of flowering plants that includes 4,828 known species in 91 genera. The name is derived from the type genus ''Rosa''. Among the most species-rich genera are '' Alchemilla'' (270), '' Sorbu ...

. It includes two species of trees native to northern Europe. *'' Scandosorbus intermedia'' – Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Baltic states, Poland, and Germany *'' Scandosorbus liljeforsii'' – southwestern Sweden Both species are the result of hybridization. ''S. intermedia'' was derived from an ancient hybridization among ''Aria'', ''Sorbus'', and ''Torminalis''. ''S. liljeforsii'' is more recently derived from ''S. intermedia'' × '' Sorbus aucuparia''. The genus was proposed to replace ''Borkhausenia'' , which is an illegitimate near-homonym. ''Borkhausenia'' was intended to describe all species from hybridization among ''Aria'', ''Sorbus'', and ''Torminalis''.

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