Prunus serotina Ehrhart (Q4478)

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Prunus serotina is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Prunus
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Prunus serotina Ehrhart
Prunus serotina is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Prunus

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    taxon/id/Prunus serotina Ehrhart
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    Prunus serotina Ehrhart
    Prunus serotina
    Ehrhart
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    cerisier d'automne (French)
    black cherry (English)
    wild black cherry (English)
    rum cherry (English)
    cerisier tardif (French)
    Black or rum cherry (English)
    cerisier tardif ou d’automne (English)
    merisier (English)
    Mexico
    Central America
    South America
    in Europe
    Shrubs or trees, not suckering, 40–400 dm, not thorny.
    Twigs with terminal end buds, glabrous or hairy.
    petiole 2–23 (–30) mm, glabrous or sparsely to densely hairy, usually glandular distally or at petiole-blade junction, glands 1–6;
    blade usually narrowly elliptic, oblongelliptic, or obovate, sometimes lanceolate, rarely ovate, 2–13.5 × 1.1–6.5 cm, base cuneate to rounded, margins crenulate-serrulate to serrate, teeth incurved or appressed, sharp or blunt, glandular or callus-tipped, apex usually acute to acuminate, sometimes obtuse, rounded to emarginate in var. alabamensis, lateral-veins 15–30 per side, flush abaxially, abaxial surface usually densely hairy along midribs proximally, sometimes glabrous or sparsely hairy, adaxial glabrous.
    Inflorescences 18–55 (–90) -flowered, racemes;
    Pedicels 1–10 mm, glabrous or hairy.
    Flowers blooming after leaf emergence;
    hypanthium cupulate, 1.5–3 mm, glabrous externally;
    sepals erect-spreading to reflexed, semicircular, 0.5–1.5 mm, margins usually entire, rarely glandular-toothed, rarely ciliate, surfaces glabrous;
    petals white, obovate to suborbiculate, 2–4 mm;
    ovaries glabrous.
    Drupes dark purple to nearly black, globose, 5–10 [–25] mm, glabrous;
    hypanthium persistent;
    mesocarps fleshy;
    stones subglobose, not flattened.