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Cotoneaster harrovianus (Cotoneaster harrovianus)

Description

Shrubs evergreen, 1.5-2 m tall, much branched. Branchlets dark brown, initially yellowish gray appressed tomentose, glabrous when old. Petiole 4-5 mm, pilose; stipules lanceolate, 4-5 mm, membranous, pilose; leaf blade elliptic-oblong or ovate, rarely obovate-oblong, 2.5-5 - 1.2-2 cm, subleathery, midvein prominently raised abaxially and impressed adaxially, lateral veins 8-10 pairs, abaxially initially densely tomentose, glabrous when old, with glaucous bloom, adaxially initially puberulous, later subglabrous, slightly rugose, base cuneate, apex acute or shortly acuminate. Compound corymbs 2-3.5 - 3-5 cm, densely many flowered; rachis and pedicels densely villous; bracts linear-lanceolate or subulate, 3-5 mm, pubescent. Pedicel very short or nearly absent. Flowers 5-6 mm in diam. Hypanthium campanulate, abaxially densely tomentose. Sepals triangular, 1.5-2 mm, apex acute. Petals spreading, broadly ovate or suborbicular, 2-3 - 2-2.5 mm, puberulous near base, base nearly not clawed, apex obtuse and erose. Stamens 20, slightly shorter than petals; anthers purple, capitate. Ovary pilose apically; styles 2, free, nearly as long as stamens. Fruit dark red, ellipsoid, 7-8 mm in diam., pyrenes usually 2. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Aug-Sep.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum: Magnoliophyta

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Rosales

            • Family: Rosaceae

              • Genus: Cotoneaster