View source for Prunus andersonii

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|accepted_name=Prunus andersonii
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=7: 337. 1868
|year=1868
}}
|common_names=Desert peach
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae;Rosaceae tribe Amygdaleae;Prunus;Prunus andersonii
|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 Amygdaleae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Prunus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Prunus andersonii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 356, 359
|treatment_page=page 373
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> suckering unknown, much branched, 10–20(–30) dm, thorny. <b>Twigs</b> with axillary end buds, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous; ± sessile; blade narrowly elliptic, obovate, oblanceolate, or spatulate, 1–3 × 0.2–0.6 cm, base long-attenuate, margins usually serrulate, sometimes obscurely, teeth blunt, inconspicuously glandular, apex usually acute, sometimes obtuse, surfaces usually glabrous, sometimes puberulent. <b>Inflorescences</b> solitary flowers or 2-flowered fascicles. <b>Pedicels</b> (1–)4–12 mm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> blooming at leaf emergence; hypanthium campanulate, 3–4 mm, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent externally; sepals spreading, triangular, 1.5–2.5 mm, margins sparsely glandular-toothed, ciliate, surfaces glabrate; petals usually dark pink, sometimes nearly white, elliptic, obovate, or suborbiculate, (5–)8–11 mm; ovaries hairy. <b>Drupes</b> greenish yellow to red-orange, globose to asymmetrically obovoid, compressed, 10–18 mm, base cuneate-stipitate, apex mucronate, densely puberulent; hypanthium persistent; mesocarps leathery to dry (often splitting); stones ellipsoid to subglobose, ± flattened.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–May; fruiting Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Dry rocky slopes, washes, canyons, sagebrush scrub, pinyon-juniper woodlands
|elevation=900–2600 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.
|discussion=<p><i>Prunus andersonii</i> inhabits the Great Basin Desert region of central and western <i>Nevada</i>, ranging westward into California to the eastern slopes of the Sierra <i>Nevada</i> from Modoc County south to Inyo County.</p>
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name=Prunus andersonii
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Rosaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–May; fruiting Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Dry rocky slopes, washes, canyons, sagebrush scrub, pinyon-juniper woodlands
|elevation=900–2600 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1868
|special status=Endemic
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|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Amygdaleae
|genus=Prunus
|species=Prunus andersonii
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