Difference between revisions of "Heteromeles"

M. Roemer

Fam. Nat. Syn. Monogr. 3: 100, 105. 1847.

Common names: Christmas berry toyon
Etymology: Greek heteros, different, and melon, apple, alluding to low stamen number
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 9. Treatment on page 447. Mentioned on page 429, 449, 468, 488.
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--><p>Heteromeles resembles Aronia and Photinia; it differs by having 10 stamens instead of 20, nearly free carpels (versus fully connate), and fruit flesh lacking stone cells (versus often possessing some). Its fruit is of the coreless type (J. R. Rohrer et al. 1991). Molecular evidence (D. Potter et al. 2007) shows a relationship to the Asiatic Eriobotrya and Rhaphiolepis Lindley miniclade; fruit type, notched petals, and other characteristics agree.</p>
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Revision as of 18:19, 18 September 2019

Shrubs or trees, canopies dense, 20–100 dm. Stems usually 1; bark (trunk) grayish, with fine tan to dark gray striations, ± smooth; short shoots absent; unarmed; young stems puberulent. Leaves persistent, cauline, simple; stipules variably persistent, free, minute, margins unknown, apex gland-tipped; petiole present; blade ± elliptic to narrowly elliptic or narrowly oblong, 5–15(–20) cm, leathery, margins revolute, sharply, remotely serrate, venation pinnate (craspedodromous-brochidodromous), surfaces tomentose when young, glabrescent. Inflorescences terminal, 20–150-flowered, panicles, ± dome-shaped, white-tomentose; bracts present on proximal nodes, leaflike, plus numerous, scalelike appendages on axes; bracteoles present caducous, delicate. Pedicels present. Flowers: perianth and androecium epigynous, 10 mm diam.; hypanthium urceolate, 2–4 mm, glabrous or weakly floccose; sepals 5, suberect, triangular; petals 5, white, irregularly round, base weakly clawed; stamens 10, shorter than petals; carpels 2 or 3, distinct, basally adnate to hypanthium, styles 2 or 3, lateral, distinct; ovules 2. Fruits pomes, usually bright red, sometimes yellow, ellipsoid, 5–10 mm, glabrous or glabrate; flesh mealy; hypanthium persistent; sepals persistent, accrescent over hypanthial opening. Pyrenes 2 or 3 per fruit, carpel walls thin, soft; styles not persistent; seeds 1 per pyrene, large.

Distribution

Calif., nw Mexico.

Discussion

Species 1.

Heteromeles resembles Aronia and Photinia; it differs by having 10 stamens instead of 20, nearly free carpels (versus fully connate), and fruit flesh lacking stone cells (versus often possessing some). Its fruit is of the coreless type (J. R. Rohrer et al. 1991). Molecular evidence (D. Potter et al. 2007) shows a relationship to the Asiatic Eriobotrya and Rhaphiolepis Lindley miniclade; fruit type, notched petals, and other characteristics agree.