Chaenomeles Lindley (Q4404)

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Chaenomeles is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Maleae
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Chaenomeles Lindley
Chaenomeles is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Maleae

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    taxon/id/Chaenomeles Lindley
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    Chaenomeles Lindley
    Chaenomeles
    Lindley
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Flowering quince (English)
    Europe
    Asia (China)
    Asia (Japan)
    Shrubs [or trees], (0.2–) 10–20 dm.
    Stems few-to-many, erect or spreading;
    bark purplish brown, blackish brown, purplish black, or purple, with scattered pale-brown lenticels;
    long and short-shoots present;
    glabrous or hairy young, smooth older;
    buds triangular-ovoid, apex obtuse or acute, scale margins glabrous or hairy.
    Leaves deciduous or semipersistent, cauline, simple;
    stipules persistent, free, reniform or suborbiculate, rarely ovate, leaflike, margins serrate or crenate-serrate;
    blade spatulate, obovate, elliptic, or ovate, 3–9 cm, firm or leathery, margins flat, serrate or crenate-serrate, venation pinnate, surfaces glabrous, sometimes midvein abaxially.
    Inflorescences terminal on short branches, appearing lateral on branch as a whole, [2 or] 3–5 [–10] -flowered, fascicles, glabrous or hairy;
    bracts present or absent;
    bracteoles present or absent.
    Pedicels present, short, or absent.
    Flowers opening before or with leaves, perianth and androecium epigynous, 25–50 mm diam.;
    hypanthium campanulate, ± constricted at mouth, 4–7 mm diam., exterior glabrous;
    sepals 5, reflexed or ascending, suborbiculate or ovate, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial hairy;
    petals 5, white, pink, or red, obovate or ovate to suborbiculate, base short-clawed, apex rounded;
    stamens 40–60, equal to or 1/2 length petals;
    carpels 5, connate, adnate to hypanthium, indumentum not recorded, styles 2–5, terminal, basally connate 1/3 of length, nearly equal to stamens;
    hypanthium persistent;
    sepals deciduous;
    carpels cartilaginous;
    styles deciduous.