Crataegus crus-galli Linnaeus (Q4329)

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Crataegus crus-galli is a taxon with the rank species within the series Crataegus ser. Crus-galli
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Crataegus crus-galli Linnaeus
Crataegus crus-galli is a taxon with the rank species within the series Crataegus ser. Crus-galli

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    taxon/id/Crataegus crus-galli Linnaeus
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    Crataegus crus-galli Linnaeus
    Crataegus crus-galli
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    ergot de coq (French)
    cockspur hawthorn (English)
    cockspur thorn (English)
    bush hawthorn (English)
    Newcastle thorn (English)
    aubépine ergot-de-coq (French)
    Cockspur hawthorn (English)
    aubépine ergot-de-coq (English)
    in Europe
    Shrubs or trees, 50–100 dm, often with tabulate branching.
    thorns on twigs often ± recurved, 2-years old dark gray to blackish, ± stout, 3–6 cm.
    Leaves: petiole obsolescent or 5 mm, length 0–7% blade, glabrous, eglandular;
    blade usually deep green, very shiny adaxially, broadly spatulate to narrowly oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 2–7 cm, coriaceous, base tapered, lobes 0, margins serrulate to finely crenate, teeth 1 mm, venation semicamptodromous, veins 4–7 per side, apex acute to obtuse, adaxial surface glabrous, sometimes sparsely hairy young, glabrescent.
    Inflorescences 8–20-flowered;
    branches usually glabrous;
    bracteoles linear, small, margins sessile-glandular.
    Flowers 12–17 mm diam.;
    hypanthium glabrous;
    sepals 5–6 mm, margins ± entire, adaxially glabrous;
    stamens 10 or 20, anthers ivory to pink to red;
    styles 1 or 2 (or 3).
    Pomes usually ruddy to crimson, sometimes bright-yellow, ± oblong to suborbicular, 8–15 mm diam., often pruinose, glabrous;
    sepals patent-reflexed;