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Pyracantha M.Roem.

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Pyracantha M.Roem., Fam. Nat. Syn. Monogr. 3, 104, 219-220 (1847)
Pyracantha M.Roem.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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M.Roem.
M.Roem.
1847
104, 219-220
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Pyracantha M.Roem.
genus
Pyracantha

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Pyracantha

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Pyracantha M.Roem.

Evergreen shrubs, usually armed with spines; stems usually rigid and spreading, sometimes sprawling, sometimes tomentose when young. Lvs alternate and spaced on young vegetative shoots, otherwise in fascicles along older stems, simple, usually serrate or crenulate, sometimes entire, ± coriaceous; stipules minute, deciduous. Infl. a compound, often ± flattened corymb. Fls 5-merous, ☿, pedicellate, moderately small. Hypanthium tubular, closed at apex. Epicalyx 0. Sepals short, connate at base. Petals suborbicular, spreading, white. Stamens 20. Ovary ± inferior; carpels 5, free on ventral side; styles 5; ovules 2 in each locule. Fr. small and pome-like, red, yellow or orange, with mealy flesh and persistent calyx; carpel walls woody; seeds 5.

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Pyracantha M.Roem.
Pyracantha
Pyracantha M.Roem.

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Pyracantha M.Roem.
New Zealand
Pyracantha M.Roem.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District

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1 January 2000
28 January 2014
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