English: Moschatels.
Botany: 5 genera: Adoxa, Sambucus, Sinadoxa, Tetradoxa, Viburnum; ± 180 species; opposite toothed leaves; flowers small, five- or, more rarely, four-petalled, cymose inflorescences; fruit a drupe; similar
Cornaceae.
Diervillaceae: 4 genera: Diervilla, Macrodiervilla, Weigela, Weigelastrum; capsular fruit.
TaxonomyAdoxaceae is the first diverging lineage in
Dipsacales in the
Apg3 classification. The most striking aspect is that Sambucus and Viburnum have been transferred from
Caprifoliaceae into
Adoxaceae.
In the
Plant theory Diervillaceae is tentatively included in
Adoxaceae.
Adoxaceae is placed in
Subphase 1 in the
Dipsacales.