gustatory gland

A serous salivary gland which resides adjacent to the moats surrounding the circumvallate papillae in the posterior one-third of the tongue, anterior to the terminal sulcus. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the gustatory gland is

A serous salivary gland which resides adjacent to the moats surrounding the circumvallate papillae in the posterior one-third of the tongue, anterior to the terminal sulcus. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the gustatory gland is

It sits within the digestive and sensory systems. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the gustatory gland connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. part of posterior part of tongue.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the gustatory gland. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as posterior deep lingual gland, posterior lingual serous gland, von Ebner gland and von Ebner's gland. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0013475, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Part of: posterior part of tongue.
A kind of: gland of tongue, saliva-secreting gland and serous gland.

Questions

Where is the gustatory gland?

What does the gustatory gland connect to?

Part of: posterior part of tongue.

Is the gustatory gland the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.