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|accepted_name=Cydonia
|accepted_authority=Miller
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gard. Dict. Abr. ed.
|place=4, vol. 1. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Quince
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae;Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae;Cydonia
|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>[[Cydonia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek Kydonia, alluding to nativity in Kydon, ancient city-state in Crete
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 20, 428, 487, 488
|treatment_page=page 486
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> crowns rounded, (30–)80 dm. <b>Stems</b> 1, sometimes several, erect or spreading; bark: older trunks gray, fissures dividing bark into rectangular plates; short shoots absent; unarmed; young branches tomentose, glabrescent; buds ovoid, apex obtuse or acuminate, tomentose. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous, cauline, simple; stipules caducous, free, ovate, margins glandular-serrate; petiole present; blade broadly ovate to oblong, 5–10 cm, firm or leathery, margins flat, entire, venation pinnate, abaxial surface densely villous, adaxial glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal on leafy branches, flowers solitary, densely hairy (tomentose) within, otherwise glabrous; bracts present similar to stipules; bracteoles absent. <b>Pedicels</b> present. <b>Flowers</b> developing with leaves, perianth and androecium epigynous, 40–50 mm diam.; hypanthium campanulate, ± constricted, 4–6 mm diam., inner rims hairy; sepals 5, reflexed, ovate or broadly lanceolate; petals 5, white or light pink, suborbiculate, ovate, or obovate, base short-clawed, apex rounded; stamens 20, equal to or slightly longer than petals; carpels 5, connate, adnate to hypanthium, ovaries 5-locular, tomentose, styles 5, terminal, distinct, ± equal to or 3/4 length of stamens, protruding through pit in top of hypanthium; ovules many. <b>Fruits</b> pomes, sessile or pedicellate, yellow, pyriform or subglobose, 30–50 mm, tomentose (sometimes tomentum ± rubbed off, with abundant, grouped stone or grit cells); fleshy; hypanthium persistent; sepals persistent, reflexed; carpels cartilaginous; styles ± persistent. <b>Seeds</b> many.</span><!--

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|distribution=Asia;introduced also in South America;Europe;Africa.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p><!--
--><p><i>Cydonia</i> is native from Iran to Turkestan; it is introduced and naturalized throughout much of temperate Asia and the Mediterranean region, where it has been cultivated for its edible fruit since ancient times.</p><!--
--><p>The species of 'flowering quince' (<i>Chaenomeles</i> spp.) are often called quince, but this latter common name is best reserved for <i>Cydonia oblonga</i>.</p>
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name=Cydonia
|author=Paul M. Catling;Gisèle Mitrow
|authority=Miller
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Rosaceae
|distribution=Asia;introduced also in South America;Europe;Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Gard. Dict. Abr. ed.
|publication year=1754
|special status=Introduced
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|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae
|genus=Cydonia
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