Cydonia Miller (Q4380)

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Cydonia is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Maleae
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Cydonia Miller
Cydonia is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Maleae

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    Cydonia Miller
    Cydonia
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Quince (English)
    also in South America
    Europe
    Africa
    Trees, crowns rounded, (30–) 80 dm.
    Stems 1, sometimes several, erect or spreading;
    bark: older trunks gray, fissures dividing bark into rectangular plates;
    short-shoots absent;
    young branches tomentose, glabrescent;
    buds ovoid, apex obtuse or acuminate, tomentose.
    Leaves deciduous, cauline, simple;
    stipules caducous, free, ovate, margins glandular-serrate;
    blade broadly ovate to oblong, 5–10 cm, firm or leathery, margins flat, entire, venation pinnate, abaxial surface densely villous, adaxial glabrous.
    Inflorescences terminal on leafy branches, flowers solitary, densely hairy (tomentose) within, otherwise glabrous;
    bracts present similar to stipules;
    bracteoles absent.
    Pedicels present.
    Flowers developing with leaves, perianth and androecium epigynous, 40–50 mm diam.;
    hypanthium campanulate, ± constricted, 4–6 mm diam., inner rims hairy;
    sepals 5, reflexed, ovate or broadly lanceolate;
    petals 5, white or light pink, suborbiculate, ovate, or obovate, base short-clawed, apex rounded;
    stamens 20, equal to or slightly longer than petals;
    carpels 5, connate, adnate to hypanthium, ovaries 5-locular, tomentose, styles 5, terminal, distinct, ± equal to or 3/4 length of stamens, protruding through pit in top of hypanthium;
    hypanthium persistent;
    sepals persistent, reflexed;
    carpels cartilaginous;
    styles ± persistent.