Prunus virginiana Linnaeus (Q4474)

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Prunus virginiana is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Prunus
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Prunus virginiana Linnaeus
Prunus virginiana is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Prunus

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    taxon/id/Prunus virginiana Linnaeus
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    Prunus virginiana Linnaeus
    Prunus virginiana
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    cerisier à grappes (French)
    cerises-à-grappe (French)
    chokecherry (English)
    common chokecherry (English)
    red chokecherry (English)
    eastern chokecherry (English)
    cerisier de Virginie (French)
    Chokecherry (English)
    Mexico
    Shrubs or trees, often suckering, 10–60 (–100) dm, not thorny.
    Twigs with terminal end buds, glabrous or hairy.
    petiole 4–22 (–27) mm, usually glabrous, sometimes hairy, glandular distally, glands 2, discoid;
    blade obovate or elliptic to ovate or oblanceolate, 2.5–9 (–11) × 1.2–5 (–6.6), base cuneate to rounded or subcordate, margins serrulate to serrate, teeth ascending to spreading, usually sharp, eglandular, sometimes callus-tipped, obscurely glandular, lateral-veins 6–13 per side, raised abaxially, apex acuminate, acute, or obtuse, abaxial surface glabrous or hairy (especially along midribs), adaxial glabrous.
    Inflorescences 18–64-flowered, racemes;
    Pedicels 2–8 (–16) mm, usually glabrous, rarely hairy.
    Flowers blooming after leaf emergence;
    hypanthium cupulate, 1.5–3 mm, glabrous externally;
    sepals erect-spreading to reflexed, semicircular, 0.7–1.4 mm, margins erose, usually glandular-toothed, sometimes nearly eglandular, surfaces glabrous;
    petals white, obovate to suborbiculate, 2–5 (–7) mm;
    ovaries glabrous.
    Drupes red, purple, dark purple, or black, globose, 6–14 mm, glabrous;
    hypanthium deciduous, leaving discs at bases of drupes;
    mesocarps fleshy;
    stones subglobose to ellipsoid, not flattened, ± smooth.