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|accepted_name=Cotoneaster nitens
|accepted_authority=Rehder & E. H. Wilson in C. S. Sargent
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in C. S. Sargent, Pl. Wilson.
|place=1: 156. 1912
|year=1912
}}
|common_names=Few-flowered or Kokonor cotoneaster
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae;Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae;Cotoneaster;Cotoneaster nitens
|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 nitens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 452
|treatment_page=page 463
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> 1.5–3 m. <b>Stems</b> erect, becoming pendulous; branches divaricate, red-brown, initially strigose. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous; petiole 2–3(–4) mm, pilose-strigose; blade elliptic or obovate, sometimes broadly elliptic, broadly ovate, or suborbiculate, 8–28 × 9–23 mm, chartaceous, base rounded, margins flat, veins 3–5, superficial, apex obtuse or acute and mucronulate, abaxial surfaces pale green, initially densely pilose-strigose, adaxial initially reddish, soon bright green, dull to slightly shiny, not glaucous, flat between lateral veins, glabrous; fall leaves turning bright red and gold. <b>Inflorescences</b> on fertile shoots 15–30 mm with 3–4(–5) leaves, 1–3(or 4)-flowered, compact. <b>Pedicels</b> 2–4 mm, glabrescent. <b>Flowers</b> 6–7 mm, open; hypanthium widely cupulate, sparsely pilose; sepals: margins tomentose, apex obtuse, acute, or apiculate, surfaces sparsely pilose; petals erect-incurved, pink-tinged with purple-maroon or pink-red, base drying to purple-black, margins white, glabrous; stamens 10–14(or 15), filaments pink, sometimes red-purple, distally dark pink, anthers pink or white, margins pale crimson, drying to dark red; styles 2(or 3). <b>Pomes</b> purple-black, ellipsoid or obovoid to globose, (7–)8–9.5 × 6.5–8 mm, shiny, slightly glaucous, sparsely pilose to glabrate; sepals erect or suberect, sparsely pilose; navel open; style remnants 3/4 from base. <b>Pyrenes</b> 2(or 3). <b>2n</b> = 68 (Germany).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–May; fruiting Jul–Nov.
|habitat=Thickets, edges, disturbed forests
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Oreg.;Wash.;Asia (China);introduced also in Europe.
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|references=
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name=Cotoneaster nitens
|authority=Rehder & E. H. Wilson in C. S. Sargent
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Rosaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–May; fruiting Jul–Nov.
|habitat=Thickets, edges, disturbed forests
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Oreg.;Wash.;Asia (China);introduced also in Europe.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=in C. S. Sargent, Pl. Wilson.
|publication year=1912
|special status=Introduced
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|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae
|genus=Cotoneaster
|species=Cotoneaster nitens
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