Crataegus tecta

Beadle

Biltmore Bot. Stud. 1: 26. 1901.

Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 9. Treatment on page 584. Mentioned on page 581.

Shrubs or trees, 40–60 dm. Stems: trunk bark not recorded; twigs: new growth reddish green, 1-year old shiny, dark reddish black, older dull gray; thorns on twigs ± straight, 2-years old shiny reddish black, ± fine, 2.5–4 cm. Leaves: petiole length 30–50% blade, sparsely sessile-glandular; blade trullate to rhombic-ovate or ovate, sometimes broadly so, 3–6 cm, base broadly cuneate to cuneate, lobes 3 or 4 per side, sinuses usually ± deep, lobe apex acute or acuminate to ± cuspidate (larger ones sharper), angled or not, margins with small acuminate teeth except at base, veins 4 or 5 per side, apex subacute, adaxial midvein hairy young. Inflorescences 3–6-flowered; branches usually glabrous; bracteoles caducous, numerous, sometimes curved, sublinear (often broader near apex), membranous to subherbaceous, margins glandular. Flowers 17–19 mm diam.; sepals narrowly triangular, 7 mm, margins subentire or glandular-denticulate; anthers pale-pink to purple, sometimes ivory to cream; styles 3–5. Pomes red or green to yellow, suborbicular, 7 mm diam.; sepals reflexed; pyrenes 3–5.


Phenology: Flowering Apr; fruiting Sep–Oct.
Habitat: Woodland gaps and edges, brush
Elevation: 10–100 m

Distribution

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Ala., Fla., Ga., Miss., Tenn.

Discussion

Crataegus tecta occurs from Mississippi to western Georgia and northern Florida. The species is fairly common in southern Alabama, and there is one somewhat atypical example for Tennessee, the second most northerly record for the series.

The typical form of Crataegus tecta is a distinctive morphotype in ser. Pulcherrimae. Compared to the somewhat similar C. incilis, the leaves are proportionately wider and have fewer lateral veins, and the anthers are cream or ivory. One specimen of C. tecta has a relatively densely pubescent inflorescence and, if correctly identified, this is the only such example for the series. Some specimens with conspicuously acuminate and slightly reflexed lobes are provisionally referred here rather than to C. venusta. Crataegus opima is usually the species most similar to C. tecta, lobe size and shape being the main discriminators. Crataegus austrina Beadle, with a narrower leaf form, is possibly the same.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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... more about "Crataegus tecta"
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
ivory +  and cream +
subacute +
James B. Phipps +
Beadle +
thin-exfoliating +  and corrugated +
compound +  and simple +
opposite +  and alternate +
broadly cuneate +  and cuneate +
Pulcherrimae +
7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br /> (8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br />) +
trullate +  and rhombic-ovate or ovate +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br />) +
coriaceous +
adnate +  and distinct +
crowded +, scattered +  and alternate +
Ala. +, Fla. +, Ga. +, Miss. +  and Tenn. +
not +  and aggregated +
10–100 m +
less hard +  and mealy +
1.7 cm17 mm <br />0.017 m <br /> (1.9 cm19 mm <br />0.019 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 />) +
gray +, black +, dark reddish +  and reddish green +
older +, old +  and new +
dull +  and shiny +
Woodland gaps and edges, brush +
constricted +
crassinucellate +
deciduous +
craspedodromous +
stipitate-glandular +
glandular-denticulate +  and subentire +
inferior +  and superior +
biseriate +  and clustered +
collateral +  and basal +
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 +
stipitate-glandular +
Flowering Apr +  and fruiting Sep–Oct. +
adnate +, free +, connate +  and distinct +
dark gray-brown +  and russet +
exfoliating +  and corrugated +
pruinose +
green +  and yellow +
7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br /> (?) +
suborbicular +
Biltmore Bot. Stud. +
not arillate +
persistent +
free +  and distinct +
triangular +
nonaccrescent +
7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br /> (?) +
1-50-flowered +  and few-leaved +
free +  and distinct +
branched +  and simple +
persistent +
distinct +
exsert +  and lateral +
elongate +
Crataegus tecta +
Crataegus (sect. Coccineae) ser. Pulcherrimae +
species +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
reddish black +
straight +
slender +
2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
craspedodromous +  and gland-tipped +
acuminate +
inconspicuous +
corrugated +  and rough +
less erect +  and oblique +
1 +  and several +
straight +
determinate +
few +  and numerous +
5 (?) +  and 4 (?) +
tree +  and shrub +