Sorbus Linnaeus (Q4391)
Sorbus is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Maleae
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Sorbus is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Maleae
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taxon/id/Sorbus Linnaeus
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Sorbus Linnaeus
Sorbus
Linnaeus
FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
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Shrubs or trees, 10–300 dm.
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Stems 1–8, erect or ascending;
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bark gray to brown or bronze, usually smooth, becoming scaly with age, with conspicuous horizontal lenticels;
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Leaves deciduous, cauline, simple or odd (rarely even) pinnately lobed or divided;
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stipules usually early deciduous, sometimes persistent, free or short-adnate to petiole, linear, ovate to lanceolate, or flabellate, margins entire or dentate to laciniate;
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blade ovate to oblong, 5–33 cm, membranous to slightly leathery, leaflets 0 or 7–17 (–19), usually opposite, rarely alternate, elliptic, ovate, oblong to lanceolate or oblanceolate, margins flat, sharply serrate to nearly entire, venation pinnate, surfaces glabrous or hairy, sometimes glaucous.
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Inflorescences terminal, 6–400+-flowered, panicles, flat-topped or rounded, glabrous, glaucous, or hairy;
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bracteoles absent.
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Pedicels present.
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Flowers opening after leaf expansion, perianth and androecium epigynous or 1/2 epigynous, odor strong, often considered unpleasant or rancid, 5–17 mm diam.;
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hypanthium green to red, obconic, 2–6 mm, glabrous or hairy;
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sepals 5, erect or ascending, ovate or triangular;
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petals 5, white or pink [red], suborbiculate or broadly obovate to broadly ovate, base clawed or not, claw often ± villous;
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stamens [10–] 14–20 [–44] in 2 or 3 series, usually slightly longer than petals;
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carpels 2–5, distinct, partially or wholly connate and adnate to all or proximal 1/2 of hypanthium, usually apically woolly, styles 2–5, terminal, distinct or connate 1/2 of length;
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ovules 2 or 3 [or 4] (all but 1 usually aborting).
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Fruits pomes, usually orange or red, rarely brown or yellow [green, white, or pink], globose to ovoid, obovoid, ellipsoid, or oblong, [pyriform], 4–19 mm, smooth or with lenticels, shiny, sometimes glaucous, hairy or glabrous;
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hypanthium persistent;
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sepals usually persistent, rarely deciduous, usually incurved, fleshy;
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carpels cartilaginous;
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styles often persistent.
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reddish-brown or yellowish
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lanceolate or flabellate
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lanceolate or flabellate
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lanceolate or oblanceolate
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globose
ovoid obovoid ellipsoid or oblong
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globose
ovoid obovoid ellipsoid or oblong
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globose
ovoid obovoid ellipsoid or oblong
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globose
ovoid obovoid ellipsoid or oblong
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