Amelanchier Medikus (Q4197)

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Amelanchier is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Maleae
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Amelanchier Medikus
Amelanchier is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Maleae

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    taxon/id/Amelanchier Medikus
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    Amelanchier Medikus
    Amelanchier
    Medikus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    serviceberry (English)
    shadbush (English)
    juneberry (English)
    Shadbush (English)
    serviceberry (English)
    sarvisberry (English)
    sarvis (English)
    Juneberry (English)
    saskatoon (English)
    shadblow (English)
    shadwood (English)
    sugarplum (English)
    wild-plum (English)
    suckering and/or rhizomatous, sometimes forming colonies.
    Stems 1–150, erect to ascending;
    bark usually gray, sometimes brown or salmon colored, smooth or fissuring in older trees;
    young stems glabrous or hairy.
    Leaves deciduous, cauline, simple;
    stipules caducous, free, linear, margins entire;
    blade elliptic, elliptic-oblong, elliptic-oval, ovate, oval, oblanceolate, oblong, oblong-ovate, obovate, quadrangular, suborbiculate, or orbiculate, 0.2–10 × 0.2–6 cm, membranous to coriaceous, base tapering or truncate to rounded or cordate, margins flat, entire or serrate, sometimes doubly serrate, or dentate distally or throughout, venation pinnate, apex acuminate to truncate or retuse, or mucronate to apiculate, abaxial surface glabrous or sparsely to densely hairy by flowering, glabrous or ± hairy at maturity, usually paler than adaxial surface.
    Inflorescences terminal, arching, ascending, erect, or drooping, sometimes spreading or nodding, 1–4-flowered clusters or 4–17-flowered racemes (panicles);
    bracteoles sometimes present.
    Pedicels present, proximal 1–3 subtended by leaves.
    Flowers opening during leaf expansion, perianth and androecium epigynous, 10–55 mm diam.;
    hypanthium campanulate or funnelform to saucer-shaped, 3–9 mm diam., hairy or glabrous;
    sepals 5, erect to reflexed, triangular to lanceolate;
    petals 5, usually white, sometimes ivory, rarely ± pink, linear to orbiculate;
    stamens 7–28, shorter than or equal to petals;
    carpels 2–5, connate, adnate to hypanthium, ovary 6–10-loculed by false partitions, apex densely hairy or glabrous, styles 2–6, terminal, distinct or ± connate;
    taste insipid to sweet;
    hypanthium persistent;
    sepals persistent, erect to strongly reflexed;
    carpels cartilaginous;
    styles sometimes persistent.