Sorbaria (Seringe) A. Braun in P. F. A. Ascherson (Q4485)

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Sorbaria is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Sorbarieae
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Sorbaria (Seringe) A. Braun in P. F. A. Ascherson
Sorbaria is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Sorbarieae

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    taxon/id/Sorbaria (Seringe) A. Braun
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    Sorbaria (Seringe) A. Braun
    Sorbaria
    (Seringe) A. Braun
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    False spiraea (English)
    sorbaire (English)
    Asia (Afghanistan)
    Asia (c China)
    Asia (n India)
    Asia (Japan)
    Asia (Pakistan)
    Asia (e Russia)
    also in Europe
    Shrubs, erect to spreading, [2–] 10–70 dm, vestiture simple, uniseriate or stellate hairs, often stipitate-glandular;
    rhizomatous, suckering.
    Stems 1–10+, widely arching;
    glabrous or strongly pubescent and/or stellate, axillary buds ovoid to cylindric, bud-scales exposed, alternate, glabrous or pubescent or stipitate-stellate.
    Leaves deciduous, cauline, alternate, odd-pinnately compound;
    stipules obliquely adnate to petiole base, linear, lanceolate to ovate, margins entire or serrate, hairy ciliate;
    blade oblong-ovate, 14–35 cm, herbaceous, leaflets (9–) 11–19 [–25], opposite along rachis, sessile, oblong-ovate to elliptic, margins flat, usually doubly serrate, with 0–6 teeth on each major tooth, surfaces glabrous or hairy.
    Inflorescences terminal, 15–1100+-flowered, panicles becoming pendulous when large, glabrous or pubescent and glandular;
    bracteoles present.
    Pedicels present, short.
    Flowers (5–) 7–13 (–14) mm diam.;
    hypanthium shallowly cupshaped, 1.5–4.6 mm diam., glabrous or stellate-hairy;
    sepals 5, strongly reflexed, ovate-rounded to oblong-ovate;
    petals 5, white, ovate to orbicular, base short-clawed;
    stamens 17–35 [–50] usually in 1 series, much exceeding petals, those directly opposite petals sometimes much shorter, filaments glabrous;
    carpels 5, whorled, opposite sepals, basally and adaxially connate, laterally distinct, glabrous or pubescent, styles adaxial;
    ovules 4–8.
    Fruits aggregated follicles, 5, oblong, 3–6 mm, leathery, united to hypanthium at base, weakly so on adaxial margins, glabrous or pubescent, dehiscent along distal adaxial margin, adaxial margin often elongating and deflecting style to abaxial edge;
    hypanthium persistent;
    sepals persistent, reflexed, withering;
    styles not persistent.
    Seeds 4–8, fusiform, 4 mm. x = 9.