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|accepted_name=Kerria
|accepted_authority=de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Trans. Linn. Soc. London
|place=12: 156. 1818
|year=1818
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae;Rosaceae tribe Kerrieae;Kerria
|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 Kerrieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Kerria]]</div></div>
|etymology=For William Kerr, d. 1814 collector in the far east, sponsored by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and superintendent of Botanic Garden, Peradinaya, Sri Lanka
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 386, 387
|treatment_page=page 389
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> spreading, open, rounded, 10–20(–30) dm; rhizomatous, suckering freely. <b>Stems</b> 1–30+, widely arcuate, sparingly branched; bark (periderm) not forming, epidermis green, striate, glabrous; short shoots absent; unarmed; bud scales imbricate. <b>Leaves</b> winter-deciduous, cauline, alternate; stipules caducous, linear-subulate, thin, margins entire ± strigose-ciliate; petiole present; blade ovate to lance-ovate, 2–8.5 cm, membranous, margins flat, coarsely doubly serrate, abaxial surface sparsely sericeous-strigose along veins. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal on vernal, leaf-bearing lateral branches, flowers solitary, sparsely strigose or glabrous; bracts absent; bracteoles absent or present, leaflike. <b>Pedicels</b> present. <b>Flowers</b> 20–50 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets 0; hypanthium saucer-shaped, 3–4 mm diam., glabrous; sepals (4 or)5(or 6), spreading to reflexed, oblong-ovate to ± orbiculate; petals (4 or)5(or 6), to 34 in multi-petaled cultivars, spreading, strong yellow to slightly orangish or yellow-cream (some petals white in multi-petaled cultivars), oblong-ovate to orbiculate, base short-clawed, apex rounded to emarginate; stamens 80–130 (0 or few in multi-petaled cultivars), shorter than petals; torus absent; carpels (4–)5(–8), globose, glabrous, styles lateral, linear, ± exceeding filaments; ovules 2. <b>Fruits</b> aggregated nutlets, (1–)5 in 1 whorl, tan, obliquely obovoid-globose, 4.5–5 mm, with distinct adaxial ridge, glabrous except for coarse basal hypanthial hairs; hypanthium persistent; sepals persistent (withering), reflexed; exocarp thin, wrinkled, mesocarp thin, dry, endocarp ± cartilaginous. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=e Asia (China;Japan);introduced also in Europe.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p><!--
--><p><i>Kerria</i> is a distinctive mesophytic shrub, native to montane forests and valleys at 200–3000 m in China and Japan, now widely cultivated. Morphologically, it stands closest to <i>Neviusia</i>.</p>
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name=Kerria
|author=James Henrickson;Alan S. Weakley
|authority=de Candolle
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Rosaceae
|distribution=e Asia (China;Japan);introduced also in Europe.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Trans. Linn. Soc. London
|publication year=1818
|special status=Introduced
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|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Kerrieae
|genus=Kerria
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