Cotoneaster sternianus (Turrill) Boom (Q4239)

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Cotoneaster sternianus is a taxon with the rank species within the subgenus Cotoneaster subg. Cotoneaster
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Cotoneaster sternianus (Turrill) Boom
Cotoneaster sternianus is a taxon with the rank species within the subgenus Cotoneaster subg. Cotoneaster

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    taxon/id/Cotoneaster sternianus (Turrill) Boom
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    Cotoneaster sternianus (Turrill) Boom
    Cotoneaster sternianus
    (Turrill) Boom
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Cotoneaster sternianus
    cotonéaster de Stern (French)
    Stern's cotoneaster (English)
    Stern’s cotoneaster (English)
    1 reference
    University of British Columbia Herbarium (UBC), Vancouver, BC. Specimen. http://www.beatymuseum.ubc.ca/herbarium/index.html
    Asia (China)
    Asia (Myanmar)
    also in Europe
    Pacific Islands (New Zealand)
    Flowering Jun–Jul; fruiting Oct–Jan.
    mossy cliffs
    thickets
    hedges
    urban waste ground
    0–200 m
    Shrubs, 1.5–4 m.
    Stems erect, arching, stiff;
    branches distichous, maroon, whitish tomentose-pilose.
    Leaves persistent;
    petiole 4–6 mm, tomentose-pilose;
    blade elliptic to broadly ovate, (18–) 25–52 (–56) x (12–) 16–28 (–34) mm, coriaceous, base obtuse or cuneate, margins recurved, veins 4–6, deeply sunken, apex acute or acuminate, abaxial surfaces whitish tomentose, adaxial dark green, slightly shiny, not glaucous, on vigorous shoots usually bulging slightly between lateral-veins (unless shaded), very rugose, pilose.
    Inflorescences on fertile shoots 25–70 mm with 3–5 leaves, 7–20-flowered, compact.
    Pedicels 1–4 mm, tomentose-pilose.
    Flowers (5–) 6–7.5 mm, opening small;
    hypanthium cupulate, silky tomentose;
    sepals: margins villous, borders purple, glabrous, apex acute or acuminate, surfaces silky tomentose;
    petals erect-incurved, pink to red, base dark red (with minute black dots), margins erect-incurved, pink or white;
    stamens 20, filaments red, distally pink or whitish, anthers white, sutures pink-tinged;
    styles (2 or) 3 or 4 (or 5).
    Pomes bright orange, eventually orange-red, subglobose to depressed-globose or globose, 6–10 × 6–10 mm, base rounded, shiny, not glaucous, pilose;
    forming 5-pointed star over closed navel;
    Pyrenes (2 or) 3 or 4 (or 5).