e-Key v3 - *Cydonia
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Rosaceae - Maloideae - *Cydonia Mill.

Description :

  • Deciduous large shrubs or small trees, without thorns
  • Leaves simple, entire, petiolate; stipules linear
  • Inflorescence terminal and axillary
  • Flowers bisexual, large, solitary on short shoots
  • Sepals 5, reflexed, glandular-serrate, persistent
  • Petals 5, larger than sepals, white or pink
  • Stamens 15-25, in 1 row
  • Ovary inferior, carpels fused along inner side only, 5-locular; ovules many in each locule; styles 5, free, pubescent towards base
  • Fruit a large, obovate to subglobose pome, with leathery carpel wall; stone cells abundant
  • Seeds many
  • x = 16, 17

Nomenclature:

  • *Cydonia Mill.
    • Miller: [426] (1754)
    • Jussieu: 335 (1789)
    • Lindley: 97 (1820)
    • Candolle: 638 (1825)
    • Endlicher: 1236 (1840)
    • Focke: 22 (1894)
    • Terpó: 64 (1968)
    • Bailey & Bailey: 352 (1977)
    • Hedberg: 42 (1989)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global : Monotypic: * Cydonia oblonga Mill., native in Caucasia, N Iran; widely cultivated in temperate regions for its edible fruits (Quince)
  • Southern Africa : An escape of cultivation, Free State

References:

  • BAILEY, L.H. & BAILEY, E.Z. 1977. Cotoneaster , Crataegus , Cydonia , Duchesnea , Fragaria , Potentilla , Prunus , Pyracantha , Pyrus , Rosa & Sanguisorba (= Poterium ). Hortus Third, a concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada . Macmillan, New York
  • CANDOLLE, A.-P. DE. 1825. Rosaceae . Prodromus 2. Treuttel & Würtz, Paris
  • ENDLICHER, S.L. 1840. Pomaceae - Rosaceae . Order AMYGDALEAE. Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita 2. Beck, Vienna
  • FOCKE, W.O. 1894. Rosaceae . Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien 3,3
  • HEDBERG, O. 1989. Rosaceae . Flora of Ethiopia 3
  • JUSSIEU, A.L. DE. 1789. Rosaceae , les Rosacées. Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita . Herissant & Barrois, Paris
  • LINDLEY, J. 1820. Observations on the natural group of plants called Pomaceae . The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13
  • MILLER, P. 1754. The gardener's dictionary , edn 4. Rivington, London
  • TERPÓ, A. 1968. Rosaceae . ( Cydonia ). Flora europaea 2

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