Cotoneaster transens |
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Mclaren's cotoneaster |
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Habit | Shrubs or trees, 4–6 m. Stems loosely erect, spreading, stiff; branches spiraled, maroon, minutely verrucose, initially pilose-strigose. |
Leaves | deciduous; petiole 4–6 mm, densely pilose-strigose; blade on sterile shoots elliptic, (35–)50–80(–103) x (13–)17–37(–42) mm, chartaceous, margins flat, base cuneate, veins 6–10, superficial or lightly sunken, apex acute or obtuse, abaxial surfaces color not recorded, villose-strigose, adaxial brownish green, soon green, dull, coating not recorded, flat between lateral veins, glabrate; fall leaves yellow. |
Inflorescences | on fertile shoots 40–50 mm with 2–4 leaves, 10–25-flowered, lax. |
Pedicels | 3–5 mm, densely pilose-strigose. |
Flowers | 10–12 mm diam.; buds white; hypanthium cupulate, villose-strigose; sepals: margins villous, apex acute, surfaces sparsely villous; petals spreading, white, with large hair tuft; stamens (16–)20, filaments white, anthers black, styles 1 or 2. |
Pomes | maroon to purple-black, obovoid to elliptic-obovoid, 9–12 × 9–10 mm, slightly shiny, glaucous, sometimes sparsely villous; sepals flat, margins glabrous, sparsely villous; navel slightly open; style remnants 9/10 from base. |
Pyrenes | 1 or 2. |
Cotoneaster transens |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun; fruiting Oct–Nov. |
Habitat | Thickets |
Elevation | 0–50 m (0–200 ft) |
Distribution |
WA; Asia (China) [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Europe] |
Discussion | L. Lingdi and A. R. Brach (2003) synonymized Cotoneaster transens with C. glaucophyllus Franchet (as C. glaucophyllus var. glaucophyllus). Cotoneaster transens is a deciduous species with purple-black pomes and is not closely related to C. glaucophyllus, an evergreen species with smaller leaves, smaller red pomes, and smaller flowers, among other differences. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 457. |
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Name authority | G. Klotz: Wiss. Z. Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena, Math.-Naturwiss. Reihe 17(3): 337, fig. 4. (1968) |
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