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slimleaf rosewood

Habit Shrubs or trees, sometimes subshrubs or herbs.
Leaves

alternate, sometimes opposite, simple, sometimes pinnately compound;

stipules present or absent.

Flowers

torus absent or minute;

carpels 1–5(–8), distinct or +/- connate (Maleae), free or +/- adnate to hypanthium (many Maleae), styles distinct or +/- connate (some Maleae);

ovules (1 or)2(–5+), collateral, clustered, or biseriate.

Fruits

follicles aggregated or not, capsules, drupes aggregated or not, aggregated drupelets, pomes, or aggregated nutlets, rarely achenes or aggregated achenes;

styles persistent or deciduous, not elongate (elongate in Gillenieae).

x

= 8, 9, 15, 17.

Vauquelinia corymbosa

Rosaceae subfam. amygdaloideae

Distribution
from FNA
TX; Mexico
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from FNA
HI; North America; Mexico; Central America; South America; Europe; Asia; Africa; Atlantic Islands (Madeira); Australia
Discussion

Subspecies 6 (1 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Cyanogenic glycosides are usually present in Amygdaloideae; sorbitol is present.

The name Amygdaloideae Arnott (1832) has priority over Spiraeoideae Arnott (1832), used by D. Potter et al. (2007), because Amygdalaceae (1820) is an earlier conserved name.

Tribes 9, genera 55, species ca. 1300 (9 tribes, 38 genera, 361 species, including 20 hybrids, in the flora)

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 9, p. 431. FNA vol. 9, p. 345. Author: Luc Brouillet.
Parent taxa Rosaceae > subfam. Amygdaloideae > tribe Maleae > Vauquelinia Rosaceae
Sibling taxa
V. californica
Subordinate taxa
V. corymbosa subsp. angustifolia
Name authority Bonpland: in A. von Humboldt and A. J. Bonpland, Pl. Aequinoct. 1: 140, plate 40. (1807) Arnott: Botany, 107. (1832)
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