View source for Cotoneaster melanocarpus

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|accepted_name=Cotoneaster melanocarpus
|accepted_authority=(Ledebour) Loddiges
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fam. Nat. Syn. Monogr.
|place=3: 223. 1847
|year=1847
}}
|common_names=Dark cotoneaster
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Cotoneaster vulgaris var. melanocarpus
|authority=Ledebour
|publication_title=Fl. Altaica
|publication_place=2: 219. 1830 (as melanocarpa)
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae;Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae;Cotoneaster;Cotoneaster melanocarpus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rosaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cotoneaster]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cotoneaster melanocarpus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 438, 451, 452, 464, 468
|treatment_page=page 467
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> 2–2.5 m. <b>Stems</b> loosely erect; branches spiraled, yellow brown to red brown, lenticellate, shiny, initially densely pilose. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous; petiole 4–7 mm, tomentose-villous; blade elliptic to ovate, 33–45 × 20–32 mm, chartaceous, base rounded, margins flat, veins 5–7, superficial, apex acute or obtuse, abaxial surfaces densely silvery-pilose-villous, adaxial green to dark green, dull to slightly shiny, not glaucous, flat between lateral veins, rugose, sparsely pilose; fall leaves lacking notable color. <b>Inflorescences</b> on fertile shoots 25–30 mm with 3 or 4 leaves, 5–13-flowered, pendent, lax. <b>Pedicels</b> 3–8 mm, sometimes sparsely villous. <b>Flowers</b> erect, 6–7 mm, open; hypanthium cupulate, dark reddish brown, glabrous; sepals: margins erose, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces glabrous, often apically villous; petals erect, greenish white with pink, red, base slightly darkened, margins white, glabrous; stamens 20(–22), filaments white, anthers white; styles 2–4. <b>Pomes</b> purple-black, obovoid or globose, 7–9 × 7–9 mm, dull, glaucous with blue tinge, glabrous; sepals suberect, glabrous or apically villous; navel open; style remnants 2/3 from base. <b>Pyrenes</b> 2–4. <b>2n</b> = 48–52, 68 (Russia).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–May; fruiting Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Forested ravines
|elevation=300–500 m
|distribution=Man.;Eurasia (Russia;Ukraine).
|discussion=<p><i>Cotoneaster melanocarpus</i> is said to hybridize spontaneously with <i>Sorbus aucuparia</i> in Siberia, forming x\Sorbocotoneaster Pojarkova. The actual <i>Cotoneaster</i> parent is more likely to be a diploid and needs investigation.</p>
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name=Cotoneaster melanocarpus
|author=
|authority=(Ledebour) Loddiges
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Cotoneaster vulgaris var. melanocarpus
|family=Rosaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–May; fruiting Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Forested ravines
|elevation=300–500 m
|distribution=Man.;Eurasia (Russia;Ukraine).
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Fam. Nat. Syn. Monogr.
|publication year=1847
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V9/V9_790.xml
|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae
|genus=Cotoneaster
|species=Cotoneaster melanocarpus
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