Cotoneaster Medik.
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Nomenclature
Medik.
Medik.
1789
154
ICN
Cotoneaster Medik.
genus
Cotoneaster
Classification
Subordinates
- Cotoneaster ×suecicus
- Cotoneaster ×watereri
- Cotoneaster adpressus
- Cotoneaster amoenus
- Cotoneaster bacillaris
- Cotoneaster bullatus
- Cotoneaster calocarpus
- Cotoneaster congestus
- Cotoneaster conspicuus
- Cotoneaster coriaceus
- Cotoneaster 'Cornubia'
- Cotoneaster dammeri
- Cotoneaster dielsianus
- Cotoneaster divaricatus
- Cotoneaster foveolatus
- Cotoneaster franchetii
- Cotoneaster frigidus
- Cotoneaster glaucophyllus
- Cotoneaster harrovianus
- Cotoneaster hebephyllus
- Cotoneaster henryanus
- Cotoneaster hjelmqvistii
- Cotoneaster horizontalis
- Cotoneaster hylmoei
- Cotoneaster integerrimus
- Cotoneaster integrifolius
- Cotoneaster lacteus
- Cotoneaster marginatus
- Cotoneaster marquandii
- Cotoneaster microphyllus
- Cotoneaster monopyrenus
- Cotoneaster moupinensis
- Cotoneaster multiflorus
- Cotoneaster obscurus
- Cotoneaster pannosus
- Cotoneaster perpusillus
- Cotoneaster racemiflorus
- Cotoneaster roseus
- Cotoneaster rugosus
- Cotoneaster salicifolius
- Cotoneaster serotinus
- Cotoneaster sherriffii
- Cotoneaster simonsii
- Cotoneaster soongoricus
- Cotoneaster symondsii
- Cotoneaster thymifolius
- Cotoneaster turbinatus
- Cotoneaster wardii
- Cotoneaster zabelii
Vernacular names
Descriptions
Cotoneaster Medik.
Deciduous to evergreen shrubs or small trees, not armed; stems erect, arching, prostrate or decumbent, often tomentose when young. Lvs distributed along stems and often 2-ranked and distichous, or clustered on short shoots, simple, entire or serrulate, usually coriaceous; stipules small, persistent. Fls in small cymes, corymbs or fascicles, rarely solitary, 2-5-merous, pedicellate, moderately small but often showy, ☿. Hypanthium tubular, closed at apex. Epicalyx 0. Calyx 2-5-merous; sepals short. Petals usually 5, suborbicular to obovate, spreading or erect, white to red. Stamens c. 20. Ovary semi-inferior or inferior, sunken in the hypanthium; carpels 2-5, ventrally free, the walls becoming woody; styles 2-5; ovules 2 per locule. Fr. small and pome-like, globose to turbinate, red, orange, yellow or black, with mealy flesh and 2-5 bony nutlets, with persistent sepals at apex; seeds 1 per nutlet.
Taxonomic concepts
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Metadata
98a9f73b-dd2b-4ca7-a3f8-e771791a82e9
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
26 August 2014