Cotoneaster Medikus (Q4226)

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

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    taxon/id/Cotoneaster Medikus
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    Cotoneaster Medikus
    Cotoneaster
    Medikus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Eurasia
    n Africa
    also in Europe
    Pacific Islands
    Australia
    Shrubs, subshrubs, or trees, 0–150 [–180] dm.
    Stems 1–25, erect, ascending, spreading to prostrate;
    bark usually dark gray, smooth;
    glabrous or tomentose to strigose;
    branches irregular, distichous, divaricate, or spiraled.
    Leaves persistent, semipersistent, or deciduous, cauline, simple;
    stipules mostly early deciduous, short-adnate to petiole, linear or narrowly lanceolate, inconspicuous, margins entire;
    blade elliptic to linear, orbiculate, lanceolate, or ovate, [0.3–] 0.4–15 (–21) cm, leathery to membranous, margins flat or revolute, entire, venation pinnate, 2–14 pairs, surfaces often hairy, rarely glandular.
    Inflorescences terminal on lateral shoots, 1–150 [–200] -flowered, domed or flattened compound panicles, racemes, or flowers solitary, glabrous or hairy;
    bracts usually present;
    bracteoles absent.
    Pedicels usually present.
    Flowers: perianth and androecium epigynous, 4–15 mm diam.;
    hypanthium funnelform, cupulate, or campanulate, 1.5–5 mm, glabrous or pilose to tomentose;
    sepals 5, erect, triangular, often fleshy;
    petals 5, spreading, white [rarely pale-pink], or erect, pink to red or blackish red, spatulate or ± orbiculate, base clawed;
    stamens (8–) 10–20 (–23) in 1 or 2 series, shorter than petals;
    carpels 1–5, distinct, adnate to proximal 1/2 of hypanthium, glabrous or strigose to tomentose, styles 1–5, terminal or lateral, distinct;
    ovules 2 (only 1 maturing).
    fleshy, flesh usually yellow, sclereids absent;
    hypanthium persistent;
    sepals mostly persistent, erect to incurved or flat;