垂丝石楠 Pourthiaea villosa

  • Scientific Name: Pourthiaea villosa (Thunb.) Decne.
  • Ref: Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. 10:147. 1874
  • Synonyms:
    • Crataegus laevis Thunb.
    • C. villosa Thunb.
    • Mespilus laevis (Thunb.) Poir.
    • M. villosa (Thunb.) Poir.
    • Photinia cardotii F.P.Metcalf
    • P. cotoneaster (Decne.) Cardot
    • P. komarovii (H.Lév. & Vaniot) L.T.Lu & C.L.Li
    • P. laevis (Thunb.) DC.
    • P. parvifolia var. kankoensis (Hatus.) T.T.Yu & K.C.Kuan
    • P. parvifolia var. subparvifolia (Y.K.Li & X.M.Wang) L.T.Lu & C.L.Li
    • P. subparvifolia Y.K.Li & X.M.Wang
    • P. subumbellata Rehder & E.H.Wilson
    • P. villosa (Thunb.) DC.
    • P. villosa var. glabricalycina L.T.Lu & C.L.Li
    • P. villosa var. parvifolia (E.Pritz.) P.S.Hsu & L.Chu Li
    • P. villosa var. tenuipes P.S.Hsu & L.Chu Li
    • Pourthiaea coreana Decne.
    • P. cotoneaster Decne.
    • P. kankoensis Hatus.
    • P. laevis (Thunb.) Koidz.
    • P. oldhamii Decne.
    • P. thunbergii Decne.
    • P. villosa var. parvifolia (E.Pritz.) Iketani & H.Ohashi
    • P. villosa var. tenuipes (P.S.Hsu & L.Chu Li) Iketani & H.Ohashi
    • P. zollingeri Decne.
    • Pyrus brunnea H.Lév.
    • P. maximowicziana (H.Lév.) Nakai
    • P. mokpoensis H.Lév.
    • Stranvaesia digyna Siebold & Zucc.
    • Viburnum komarovii H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • English Common Name: Christmas berry, oriental photinia
  • Chinese Common Name: 毛叶石楠 máoyè shínán, 垂丝石楠 chuísī shínán, 细毛扇骨木 xìmáo shàngǔ∙mù
  • Japanese Common Name: カマツカ [鎌柄] kamatsuka, ウシゴロシ [牛殺し] ushigoroshi
  • Family: Rosaceae
  • Genus: Pourthiaea
  • Distribution: Slopes, roadsides, sparse woods, forests; 400–1500 m. Fujian, Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Zhejiang.
  • Photo: 04/19/2016, Hangzhou Botanical Garden, Zhejiang
Shrubs deciduous, to 3 m tall. Branchlets reddish brown or dark brown, gray villous when young, glabrous when old; buds reddish brown, narrowly ovoid, glabrous. Petiole 1–2 mm, initially slightly villous, later glabrous; leaf blade elliptic or rhomboidal-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2–5 × 1–2.2 cm, veins 4–6 pairs, raised abaxially and impressed adaxially, both surfaces glabrous or slightly gray villous along veins when young, glabrescent, base broadly cuneate or ± rounded, margin sharply serrate, apex acuminate to caudate. Inflorescences 2- or 3-fascicled or flowers solitary, without peduncle. Pedicel (2–)3–5 cm, slender, glabrous, sparsely minutely lenticellate. Flowers 6–8 mm in diam. Hypanthium glabrous abaxially. Sepals triangular-ovate, 1–1.5 mm. Petals white, suborbicular, 3–3.5 mm in diam., glabrous, apex obtuse. Stamens 15–20, shorter than or nearly as long as petals. Ovary densely gray villous apically; styles 2, connate from base nearly to middle or apex, glabrous. Fruit red, ellipsoid or oblong-ovate, 6–7 × 5–6 mm, glabrous; sepals incurved; fruiting pedicels 3–5 mm, lenticellate. Fl. Jun. (Flora of China)

04/19/2016, Hangzhou Botanical Garden

04/19/2016, Hangzhou Botanical Garden

04/19/2016, Hangzhou Botanical Garden

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