Cotoneaster microphyllus (Cotoneaster microphyllus)
Description
Shrubs evergreen, , low, to 1 m tall, with stiff spreading branches. Branchlets reddish brown to blackish brown, terete, initially yellow pubescent, gradually glabrate. Petiole 1-2 mm to more than 4 mm, pubescent; stipules caducous, lanceolate or linear, nearly as long as petioles, slightly pubescent; leaf blade obovate to oblong-obovate, 4-10(-16) - 4-8 mm, thickly leathery, midvein raised abaxially and impressed adaxially, abaxially gray pubescent, rarely glabrous, adaxially glabrous or sparsely pubescent, base broadly cuneate, margin revolute, apex obtuse, rarely emarginate or - acute. Inflorescences 1(-3)-flowered. Flowers 8-10 mm in diam. Pedicel 2-3 mm, sparsely pubescent. Hypanthium campanulate, abaxially pubescent at least initially. Sepals ovate-triangular, 1-1.5 mm and nearly as broad, apex obtuse. Petals spreading, white, suborbicular, ca. 4 mm and ca. as broad, base shortly clawed, apex obtuse. Stamens 15-20, shorter than petals. Ovary pubescent apically; styles 2, free, somewhat not exceeding stamens. Fruit scarlet-red, globose, 5-6(-10) mm in diam., pyrenes 2. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Aug-Sep. 2N = 34, 51, 68*, 102.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Rosales
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Family: Rosaceae
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Genus: Cotoneaster
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