Cotoneaster nummularia, Fischer & C. A. Meyer

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 73

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.293200

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scientific name

Cotoneaster nummularia
status

 

9. C. nummularia Fischer & C. A. Meyer View in CoL , Ind. Sem. Horti Petrop. 2: 34 (1835).

Erect, deciduous shrub up to 1-5 m, but sometimes dwarfed by exposure; young twigs grey-tomentose. Leaves 1-2-5 x 0-9-2-2 cm, broadly elliptical, obovate, or suborbicular, obtuse, mucronate, sometimes emarginate, sparsely hairy above when young, whitish- or greyish-tomentose beneath; petiole 1-5-2-5 mm, tomentose. Inflorescence 3- to 7-flowered, dense. Hypanthium and calyx tomentose. Fruit c. 8 mm, subglobose, red, whitish-pubescent when young, becoming glabrous; pyrenes 2. Kriti. Cr. (C. & S. W. Asia, N. Africa.)

The plant from Kriti has pink petals, though over the rest of its range the species has white petals.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Rosales

Family

Rosaceae

Genus

Cotoneaster

Loc

Cotoneaster nummularia

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1981
1981
Loc

C. nummularia

Fischer & C. A. Meyer 1835: 34
1835
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