View source for Prunus fremontii

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|accepted_name=Prunus fremontii
|accepted_authority=S. Watson in W. H. Brewer et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in W. H. Brewer et al., Bot. California
|place=2: 442. 1880
|year=1880
}}
|common_names=Desert apricot
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Prunus eriogyna
|authority=S. C. Mason
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae;Rosaceae tribe Amygdaleae;Prunus;Prunus fremontii
|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 Amygdaleae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Prunus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Prunus fremontii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 359
|treatment_page=page 373
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> suckering unknown, much branched, 10–40 dm, thorny. <b>Twigs</b> with axillary end buds, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous; petiole 1–7 mm, glabrous, eglandular; blade elliptic, ovate, or suborbiculate, 0.6–3 × 0.5–2 cm, base obtuse to rounded, subcordate, or truncate, margins obscurely crenulate, crenulate-serrulate, or serrate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex usually obtuse to rounded, sometimes emarginate, surfaces glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1–3-flowered, umbellate fascicles. <b>Pedicels</b> 2–12 mm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> blooming at leaf emergence; hypanthium campanulate, 2–4 mm, glabrous externally; sepals erect-spreading, semicircular to ovate, 1.2–4 mm, margins glandular-toothed, ciliate, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial hairy; petals usually white, sometimes pinkish rose, elliptic, obovate, or suborbiculate, 3–10 mm; ovaries hairy. <b>Drupes</b> yellowish, ellipsoid-ovoid, 8–15 mm, densely puberulent; mesocarps leathery to dry (splitting); stones ovoid, ± flattened.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jan–Mar; fruiting Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Dry, sandy or rocky slopes, canyons, desert, chaparral, pinyon-juniper woodlands
|elevation=200–1500 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|discussion=<p><i>Prunus fremontii</i> is known only from the western edge of the Sonoran Desert.</p>
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name=Prunus fremontii
|authority=S. Watson in W. H. Brewer et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Prunus eriogyna
|basionyms=
|family=Rosaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jan–Mar; fruiting Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Dry, sandy or rocky slopes, canyons, desert, chaparral, pinyon-juniper woodlands
|elevation=200–1500 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=in W. H. Brewer et al., Bot. California
|publication year=1880
|special status=
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|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Amygdaleae
|genus=Prunus
|species=Prunus fremontii
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