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|accepted_name=Aronia melanocarpa
|accepted_authority=(Michaux) Elliott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sketch Bot. S. Carolina
|place=1: 557. 1821
|year=1821
}}
|common_names=Black chokeberry
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Mespilus arbutifolia var. melanocarpa
|authority=Michaux
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication_place=1: 292. 1803
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aronia nigra
|authority=(Willdenow) Koehne
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Photinia melanocarpa
|authority=(Michaux) K. R. Robertson & J. B. Phipps
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Pyrus arbutifolia var. nigra
|authority=Willdenow
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=P. melanocarpa
|authority=(Michaux) Willdenow
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sorbus melanocarpa
|authority=(Michaux) Hey nhold
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae;Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae;Aronia;Aronia melanocarpa
|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>[[Aronia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Aronia melanocarpa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 438, 489
|treatment_page=page 446
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>glabrous or glabrescent. <b>Leaves</b> pale green abaxially, dark green and shiny adaxially, becoming scarlet; blade 2.5–7 × 2.5–3.5 cm, apex subacute to acuminate or apiculate, surfaces glabrous or glabrescent, adaxial midrib stipitate-glandular. <b>Flowers</b> sweet-scented; hypanthium glabrous; sepal margins glabrous; anthers yellow to purplish red. <b>Pomes</b> black, glabrous, taste acid and bitter. <b>2n</b> = 34, 68.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jun; fruiting Sep–Nov.
|habitat=Swamps, bogs, wet thickets, margins of ponds and lakes, beaver ponds, woods, moist high-elevation forests, rock outcrops
|elevation=0–2000 m
|distribution=N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Aronia melanocarpa
|authority=(Michaux) Elliott
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Aronia nigra;Photinia melanocarpa;Pyrus arbutifolia var. nigra;P. melanocarpa;Sorbus melanocarpa
|basionyms=Mespilus arbutifolia var. melanocarpa
|family=Rosaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jun; fruiting Sep–Nov.
|habitat=Swamps, bogs, wet thickets, margins of ponds and lakes, beaver ponds, woods, moist high-elevation forests, rock outcrops
|elevation=0–2000 m
|distribution=N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sketch Bot. S. Carolina
|publication year=1821
|special status=Endemic;Illustrated
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V9/V9_752.xml
|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae
|genus=Aronia
|species=Aronia melanocarpa
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