Sorbus Linnaeus (Q4391)

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Sorbus is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Maleae
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Sorbus Linnaeus
Sorbus is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Maleae

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    taxon/id/Sorbus Linnaeus
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    Sorbus Linnaeus
    Sorbus
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    mountain-ash (English)
    Mountain ash (English)
    rowan (English)
    whitebeam (English)
    sorbier (English)
    alisier (English)
    North America
    Eurasia
    n Africa
    Atlantic Islands
    Pacific Islands
    Shrubs or trees, 10–300 dm.
    Stems 1–8, erect or ascending;
    bark gray to brown or bronze, usually smooth, becoming scaly with age, with conspicuous horizontal lenticels;
    Leaves deciduous, cauline, simple or odd (rarely even) pinnately lobed or divided;
    stipules usually early deciduous, sometimes persistent, free or short-adnate to petiole, linear, ovate to lanceolate, or flabellate, margins entire or dentate to laciniate;
    blade ovate to oblong, 5–33 cm, membranous to slightly leathery, leaflets 0 or 7–17 (–19), usually opposite, rarely alternate, elliptic, ovate, oblong to lanceolate or oblanceolate, margins flat, sharply serrate to nearly entire, venation pinnate, surfaces glabrous or hairy, sometimes glaucous.
    Inflorescences terminal, 6–400+-flowered, panicles, flat-topped or rounded, glabrous, glaucous, or hairy;
    bracteoles absent.
    Pedicels present.
    Flowers opening after leaf expansion, perianth and androecium epigynous or 1/2 epigynous, odor strong, often considered unpleasant or rancid, 5–17 mm diam.;
    hypanthium green to red, obconic, 2–6 mm, glabrous or hairy;
    sepals 5, erect or ascending, ovate or triangular;
    petals 5, white or pink [red], suborbiculate or broadly obovate to broadly ovate, base clawed or not, claw often ± villous;
    stamens [10–] 14–20 [–44] in 2 or 3 series, usually slightly longer than petals;
    carpels 2–5, distinct, partially or wholly connate and adnate to all or proximal 1/2 of hypanthium, usually apically woolly, styles 2–5, terminal, distinct or connate 1/2 of length;
    ovules 2 or 3 [or 4] (all but 1 usually aborting).
    Fruits pomes, usually orange or red, rarely brown or yellow [green, white, or pink], globose to ovoid, obovoid, ellipsoid, or oblong, [pyriform], 4–19 mm, smooth or with lenticels, shiny, sometimes glaucous, hairy or glabrous;
    hypanthium persistent;
    sepals usually persistent, rarely deciduous, usually incurved, fleshy;
    carpels cartilaginous;
    styles often persistent.