Aronia Medikus (Q4222)

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

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    Aronia Medikus
    Aronia
    Medikus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Chokeberry (English)
    e North America
    Stems 1–20+, erect;
    bark gray or brown, smooth;
    appressed-pilose, glabrous, or glabrescent.
    Leaves deciduous, cauline, simple;
    stipules persistent, adnate to petiole, narrowly triangular, margins glandular;
    blade elliptic to obovate, 2.5–7.5 (–18) cm, membranous, margins flat, glandular serrulate-dentate, venation pinnate, surfaces glabrous or glabrescent to pilose (or villous).
    Inflorescences lateral and apparently terminal, 5–12 (–20) -flowered, corymbose, appressed pilose;
    bracts reduced to glands;
    bracteoles reduced to glands.
    Pedicels present.
    Flowers: perianth and androecium epigynous, 12–20 mm diam.;
    hypanthium campanulate, 1–2 mm, glabrous or villous;
    sepals 5, erect, triangular;
    petals 5, white to pale-pink, elliptic to orbiculate, base clawed;
    stamens 16–22, equal to petals;
    carpels 5, connate proximally, adnate to hypanthium, hairy, styles terminal, distinct;
    Fruits pomes, red or black, obovoid or subglobose, 6–9 (–11) mm, glabrous or pilose;
    hypanthium persistent;
    sepals persistent, ± appressed;
    carpels cartilaginous;
    styles and often filaments persistent.
    Seeds 1–8 per pome, 2–3 mm. x = 17.