Physocarpus (Cambessèdes) Rafinesque (Q4447)

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Physocarpus is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Neillieae
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Physocarpus (Cambessèdes) Rafinesque
Physocarpus is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Neillieae

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    taxon/id/Physocarpus (Cambessèdes) Rafinesque
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    Physocarpus (Cambessèdes) Rafinesque
    Physocarpus
    (Cambessèdes) Rafinesque
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    (Cambessèdes) Rafinesque
    ninebark (English)
    Nine-bark (English)
    physocarpe (English)
    North America
    n Mexico
    ne Asia
    in Europe
    Shrubs, (10–) 30–60 dm, glabrous or stellate-hairy, mostly eglandular (except in inflorescence).
    Stems 5–20, ascending to erect, branches erect proximally, somewhat sinuous;
    bark buff to reddish-brown or black, usually peeling in narrow strips;
    short-shoots present;
    buds superposed, each with ca. 5 exposed brown scales.
    Leaves deciduous, cauline;
    stipules caducous, decurrent on stem, leaving oblique, broadly ovate to rectangular stubs, linear or oblong to narrowly ovate, obovate, or elliptic, sometimes rhombic, margins sometimes remotely glandular-dentate, surfaces sparsely stellate-hairy (glabrous adaxially in P. monogynus);
    blade broadly ovate to obovate or orbiculate, 0.5–10 cm, membranous, margins flat, crenate to doubly crenate or doubly dentate, 3–5 (–7) -lobed, rarely almost unlobed, 3–5 (–7) -veined, surfaces glabrous or sparsely to densely stellate-hairy.
    Inflorescences terminal or axillary on leafy short-shoots, 5–50-flowered, open to dense corymb or umbellike pedunculate racemes;
    bracteoles absent.
    Pedicels present.
    Flowers 5–12 mm diam.;
    hypanthium cupshaped to campanulate, 1.5–3 mm, exterior stellate-hairy;
    sepals 5, ascending to slightly reflexed, triangular to ovate;
    petals 5, white to pale-pink, broadly obovate, elliptic, or orbiculate, base short-clawed, sometimes irregularly toothed or notched;
    stamens 20–40, shorter than, equal to, or exceeding petals;
    styles slender, stigmas capitate;
    Fruits aggregated follicles, sometimes solitary, 1–5, ovoid, often ± inflated, slightly flattened, size not recorded, splitting along both sutures;
    hypanthium persistent;
    sepals persistent, ascending to slightly reflexed.