Malus fusca (Rafinesque) C. K. Schneider (Q4385)

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Malus fusca is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Malus
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Malus fusca (Rafinesque) C. K. Schneider
Malus fusca is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Malus

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    taxon/id/Malus fusca (Rafinesque) C.K. Schneider
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    Malus fusca (Rafinesque) C.K. Schneider
    Malus fusca
    (Rafinesque) C.K. Schneider
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    (Rafinesque) C.K. Schneider
    pommier du Pacifique (French)
    pommier de l'Oregon (French)
    Pacific crabapple (English)
    Oregon crabapple (English)
    western crabapple (English)
    Oregon or western or Pacific crabapple (English)
    1 reference
    Douglas, G.W., G.B. Straley, D.V. Meidinger & J. Pojar. 1998. Illustrated Flora of British Columbia. B.C. Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks and B.C. Ministry of Forests. Victoria. Crown Publications. 8 vols.
    Flowering Apr–early Jul; fruiting Jun–Nov.
    open places
    forests
    forest edges
    beach edges
    sea cliffs
    swamps
    brackish marshes
    clearings
    0–600 m
    Trees, sometimes shrubs, 50–100 (–200) dm.
    Stems (12–) 20–30 (–40) cm diam.;
    bark gray to reddish-brown, smooth when young, scaly and deeply fissured at maturity;
    young branches reddish, puberulent when young, becoming reddish-brown or gray and glabrous;
    lateral flowering shoots becoming spurs, 10–30 (–50) mm.
    Buds redbrown, ovoid, 1.5–4 mm, scale margins ciliate.
    stipules deciduous, narrowly lanceolate, 1–5 mm, apex acuminate;
    petiole 10–30 mm, tomentose, glabrescent;
    blade ovate, sometimes oval, elliptic, or lanceolate, 3–9 (–11) × 1–4 cm, base rounded to cuneate, margins unlobed or 3-lobed, serrate to doubly serrate, sometimes serrulate, apex acute or acuminate, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial puberulent.
    Panicles corymblike;
    peduncles absent;
    bracteoles sometimes persistent, filiform, 1–4 mm.
    Pedicels 15–40 mm, villous or glabrous.
    Flowers 15–20 mm diam.;
    hypanthium glabrous or tomentose;
    sepals triangular, 3–6 mm, shorter than tube, apex apiculate, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial hoary-tomentose;
    petals white, sometimes pink, orbiculate to obovate, (6–) 10–15 mm, claws 1.5–2 mm, margins erose or undulate, apex rounded;
    stamens ca. 20, 4–6 mm, anthers white before dehiscence;
    styles 3 (or 4), connate in proximal 1/3, 6–7 mm, longer than stamens, glabrous.
    Pomes yellow to purplish red, oblong, sometimes ovoid or obovoid, 6–10 (–13) mm diam., cores enclosed at apex;
    sepals deciduous, sometimes tardily;