Malus honanensis Rehder

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Rosaceae > Malus

Characteristics

Shrubs or small trees, to 5–7 m tall. Branchlets reddish brown when old, terete, slender, pubescent when young, soon glabrescent, glabrous when old; buds reddish brown, ovoid; scales villous at margin. Stipules caducous, linear-lanceolate, ca. 6 mm, membranous, pubescent, margin entire, apex acuminate; petiole 1.5–2.5 cm, pubescent; leaf blade broadly ovate, narrowly elliptic, or ovate, 4–7 × 3.5–6 cm, both surfaces puberulous, adaxially soon glabrescent, base rounded, cordate, or truncate, margin doubly serrate, 3–6-lobed, apex acute. Corymb umbel-like, 4–6.5 cm in diam., 5–10-flowered; bracts caducous, linear-lanceolate, 5–6 mm, membranous, pubescent, margin entire, apex acuminate. Pedicel 1.5–3 cm, slender, pubescent when young, soon glabrescent. Flowers ca. 1.5 cm in diam. Hypanthium campanulate, abaxially sparsely pubescent. Sepals triangular-ovate, ca. 2 mm, shorter than hypanthium, abaxially glabrous, adaxially densely villous, margin entire, apex acute. Petals pinkish white, ovate, 7–8 mm, base subcordate and shortly clawed, apex rounded. Stamens ca. 20, ca. as long as or slightly shorter than petals. Ovary 3-or 4-loculed, with 2 ovules per locule; styles 3 or 4, connate at base, glabrous. Pome yellowish red, subglobose, ca. 8 mm in diam.; fruiting pedicel 1.5–3 cm, subglabrous; sepals persistent. Fl. May, fr. Aug–Sep. 2n = 34*.
Life form
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Images

Malus honanensis unspecified picture

Distribution

Malus honanensis world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:726309-1
WFO ID wfo-0001016415
COL ID 3XQW6
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Synonyms

Malus honanensis Sinomalus honanensis