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Cotoneaster Medik.

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Cotoneaster Medik., Philos. Bot. (Medikus) 154 (1789)
Cotoneaster Medik.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Medik.
Medik.
1789
154
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Cotoneaster Medik.
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Cotoneaster

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Cotoneaster

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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.

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Cotoneaster Medik.
Cotoneaster
Cotoneaster Medik.
Cotoneaster Medik.
Cotoneaster
Cotoneaster Medik.

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Cotoneaster Medik.
Nepal
Cotoneaster Medik.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Cotoneaster Medik.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Cotoneaster Medik.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Cotoneaster Medik.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Cotoneaster Medik.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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1 January 2000
26 August 2014
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