taste bud

A specialized receptor organ that is a collection of cells spanning the gustatory epithelium. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the taste bud is

A specialized receptor organ that is a collection of cells spanning the gustatory epithelium. The atlas records it as a sense organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the taste bud is

It sits within the nervous and sensory systems. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the taste bud connects to

The atlas records 13 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of gustatory epithelium, gustatory system and foliate papilla, and 2 more.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: chorda tympani branch of facial nerve and glossopharyngeal nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as tastebud, caliculus gustatorius, taste buds, taste-bud and tastebuds. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001727, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: gustatory epithelium, gustatory system, foliate papilla, fungiform papilla and vallate papilla.
• A kind of: anatomical structure, gustatory organ and organ.
• Innervated by: chorda tympani branch of facial nerve and glossopharyngeal nerve.
• contributes to morphology of: gustatory system.
• contains: gustatory pore.
• subtype: tongue taste bud.

Questions

Where is the taste bud?

It sits within the nervous and sensory systems. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the taste bud connect to?

Part of: gustatory epithelium, gustatory system, foliate papilla, fungiform papilla and vallate papilla.

Is the taste bud 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.