Crataegus annosa

Beadle

Biltmore Bot. Stud. 1: 83. 1902.

Treatment appears in FNA Volume 9. Treatment on page 617. Mentioned on page 612, 616.

Trees, 80 dm. Stems: trunk bark dark, rimose; twigs not recorded; thorns on twigs ± straight, 1-year old chestnut-brown or gray, slender, 2–3 cm. Leaves: petiole slender, length 25–50% blade, pubescent (at least young), sessile-glandular; blade rhombic-elliptic to obovate or obtrullate, 2–4 cm, texture and base not recorded, lobes small across apical part, sinuses, lobe apex, and margins not recorded, veins 2 or 3 per side extension shoots with 3–4 pairs, apex not recorded, surfaces sparsely pubescent. Inflorescences 3–5-flowered; branches densely pubescent; bracteoles not recorded. Flowers 15–20 mm diam.; hypanthium pubescent; sepals 3–4.5 mm, margins glandular-serrate; stamens 20, anthers ivory; styles 3–5. Pomes reddish orange to yellow, washed red, suborbicular to broadly ellipsoid, 10–12 mm diam., pubescence not recorded; sepals reflexed; pyrenes 3–5.


Phenology: Flowering Apr; fruiting Sep.
Habitat: Brush
Elevation: 50 m

Discussion

Crataegus annosa is typical for ser. Apricae in foliage and fruit, but in anther number and color, and in the narrower short-shoot leaves, it is typical of ser. Lacrimatae. It is known only from syntype specimens and is only doubtfully placed in ser. Apricae.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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... more about "Crataegus annosa"
pilose +  and glabrous +
glabrous +, glabrescent +  and hairy +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
acute;obtuse +
James B. Phipps +
Beadle +
thin-exfoliating +  and corrugated +
compound +  and simple +
opposite +  and alternate +
cuneate +
8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br /> (12 cm120 mm <br />0.12 m <br />) +
rhombic-elliptic +  and obovate or obtrullate +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
coriaceous +
linear +  and narrowly oblong +
rather than pendent +  and spreading +
adnate +  and distinct +
crowded +, scattered +  and alternate +
not +  and aggregated +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
not +  and aggregated +
not +  and aggregated +
yellow +  and red or purplish +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
dark purple-brown +, gray-brown +, gray +, older +, rarely tan +  and chestnut +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
Brush +
constricted +
crassinucellate +
deciduous +
craspedodromous +
stipitate-glandular +
glandular-crenate to glandular-serrate +  and glandular-crenate +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
inferior +  and superior +
biseriate +  and clustered +
collateral +  and basal +
larger +  and reduced +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
elliptic +  and circular +
0 (?) +  and 4 (?) +
pale paper brown +
free +  and distinct +
post-mature +
Flowering Apr +  and fruiting Sep. +
adnate +, free +, connate +  and distinct +
dark gray-brown +  and russet +
exfoliating +  and corrugated +
pruinose +
red +, reddish orange +  and yellow +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
hairy +  and glabrous +
suborbicular +  and broadly ellipsoid +
Biltmore Bot. Stud. +
not arillate +
persistent +
free +  and distinct +
triangular +
nonaccrescent +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br />) +
1-50-flowered +  and few-leaved +
deep +  and shallow +
free +  and distinct +
branched +  and simple +
persistent +
distinct +
exsert +  and lateral +
elongate +
Crataegus annosa +
Crataegus (sect. Coccineae) ser. Apricae +
species +
6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br /> (10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br />) +
gray +, chestnut-brown +  and old +
straight +
slender +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
craspedodromous +  and gland-tipped +
inconspicuous +
less erect +  and oblique +
1 +  and several +
straight +
determinate +
3 (?) +  and 2 (?) +