台湾林檎 Malus doumeri

by Jun

  • Scientific Name: Malus doumeri (Bois) A.Chev.
  • Ref: Compt. Rend. Hebd. Séances Acad. Sci. 170:1129. 1920
  • Synonyms:
    • Docynia doumeri (Bois) C.K.Schneid.
    • Docynia indica var. doumeri (Bois) Chev.
    • Docynia indica var. laosensis (Cardot) Chev.
    • Docyniopsis doumeri (Bois) comb. ined.
    • Docyniopsis laosensis (Cardot) Koidz.
    • Eriolobus doumeri (Bois) C. K. Schneid.
    • Malus doumeri var. formosana (Kawak. & Koidz.) S.S.Ying
    • Malus formosana Kawak. & Koidz.
    • Malus laosensis (Cardot) A.Chev.
    • Malus melliana (Hand.-Mazz.) Rehd.
    • Pyrus doumeri Bois
    • Pyrus formosana Kawak. & Koidz. ex Hayata
    • Pyrus laosensis Cardot
    • Pyrus melliana Hand.-Mazz.
  • English Common Name: Taiwan crabapple
  • Chinese Common Name: 台湾林檎 Táiwān línqín, 台湾苹果 Táiwān píngguǒ, 台湾海棠 Táiwān hǎitáng, 广山楂 Guǎng shānzhā, 山仙楂 shān∙xiānzhā
  • Japanese Common Name: タイワンリンゴ [台湾林檎] taiwanringo
  • Family: Rosaceae
  • Genus: Malus
  • Section: M. sect. Docyniopsis
  • Distribution: Forests; 1000–2000 m. Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Laos, Vietnam].
  • Photo: 03/17/2019，Hangzhou Botanical Garden, Zhejiang
Trees to 15 m tall. Branchlets grayish brown or purplish brown when old, terete, villous when young, glabrous when old; buds reddish purple, ovoid, pubescent or only pubescent along margin of scales. Stipules caducous, linear-lanceolate, membranous, glabrous, margin entire, apex acuminate; petiole 1.5–3 cm, tomentose when young, glabrescent; leaf blade narrowly elliptic-ovate or obovate-lanceolate, 9–15 × 4–6.5 cm, both surfaces white tomentose when young, glabrescent, base rounded or cuneate, margin irregularly serrate, apex acuminate, Corymb umbel-like, 3–5 cm in diam., 4- or 5-flowered; bracts caducous, linear-lanceolate, membranous, glabrous, margin entire, apex obtuse. Pedicel 1.5–3 cm, white tomentose. Flowers 2.5–3 cm in diam. Hypanthium campanulate, abaxially tomentose, prolonged into short tube at apex. Sepals ovate or lanceolate, ca. 8 mm, ca. as long as or slightly longer than hypanthium, abaxially tomentose, adaxially densely tomentose, margin entire, apex acuminate. Petals yellowish white; obovate, 1–2 cm, base shortly clawed, apex rounded. Stamens unequal, slightly shorter than petals. Ovary 4- or 5-loculed, with 2 ovules per locule; styles 4 or 5, longer than stamens, long tomentose basally. Pome yellowish red, globose, 2.5–5.5 cm in diam.; distal part of hypanthium tubular, 5–8 mm, core free; fruiting pedicel 1–3 cm, glabrous; sepals persistent. Fl. May, fr. Aug–Sep. (Flora of China)
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