Malus Miller (Q4382)
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Malus is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Maleae
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Malus Miller
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Malus is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Maleae
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taxon/id/Malus Miller
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Malus Miller
Malus
Miller
FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
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Shrubs or trees, 2–200 dm.
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Stems 1+ (derived from root shoots), erect;
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bark dark-brown, reddish-brown, or gray, firm, platy or scaly;
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long and short-shoots present;
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glabrous, glabrescent, villous, densely puberulent, or tomentose.
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Leaves deciduous [semipersistent], cauline, simple, shoot dimorphism, long and juvenile-shoot leaves usually larger and more deeply serrate (lobed) than short-shoot leaves;
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stipules deciduous (or persistent on vigorous shoot leaves in M. baccata), basally adnate to petiole, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, sometimes filiform, membranous, sometimes herbaceous, margins entire, serrulate, glandular-serrate, sparsely glandular-denticulate, or white-ciliate;
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blade elliptic, ovate, obovate, triangular-ovate, oval, lanceolate, ovate-oblong, or oblong, (2–) 4–12 cm, membranous or leathery, margins flat, sometimes lobed, dentate, serrulate, serrate, doubly serrate, crenate, or sometimes entire, venation pinnate (craspedodromous when lobed, camptodromous when unlobed), surfaces glabrous or tomentose.
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Inflorescences terminal on short-shoots, 2–12-flowered, flat-topped panicles, glabrous or tomentose;
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bracts present (absent in M. fusca), caducous, ovate, linear-lanceolate, membranous, glabrous;
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bracteoles present.
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Pedicels present.
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Flowers bisexual (occasionally andromonoecious in M. halliana), opening with leaves, perianth and androecium epigynous, 15–50 mm diam.;
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hypanthium campanulate, size not recorded, glabrous or tomentose;
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sepals 5, reflexed to wide spreading, triangular, triangular-lanceolate, triangular-ovate, or lanceolate;
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petals 5 (or more in M. halliana), white, pink, or red, suborbiculate, obovate, narrowly or oblong-obovate, ovate, or ± elliptic, base clawed;
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stamens 15–50, unequal, usually shorter than, rarely equal to, petals;
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carpels 3–5, connate, adnate to hypanthium, styles 3–5, emerge from base of hypanthium, basally connate, glabrous or tomentose basally;
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Fruits pomes, green, yellow, or red, globose, depressed-globose, obovoid, or oblong, 6–50 (–70) mm diam., glaucous, waxy, punctate;
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flesh homogeneous, stone cells adjacent to carpels and epidermis;
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hypanthium persistent;
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sepals persistent or deciduous, erect or reflexed;
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carpels cartilaginous;
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styles persistent or deciduous.
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