Crataegus pseudoazarolus Popov
Creators: name: Dönmez, Ali A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Rosales
Rosaceae
Crataegus
Crataegus pseudoazarolus

description: <i>Crataegus pseudoazarolus</i> Popov <i>Trudy po Prikladnoi Botanike</i> 22: 442, fig. 101 (1929). (<i>Crataegus azarolus</i> var. <i>pontica</i> × <i>Crataegus pentagyna</i>). — Typus: <i>Kalinskiy s.n.</i>, Kopet-Dagh, Aidere, <i>Popov s.n.</i> (holo-, LE!). <i>Crataegus nikitinii</i> Essenova, <i>Novitates Systematicae</i> <i> <i>Plantarum</i> non Vascularium</i> 13: 160, fig. [1] (1976). — Typus: <i>Essenova s.n.</i> (holo-, ASH; iso-, LE!). <i>Crataegus</i> × <i>androssovii</i> Essenova &amp; Kerimova, <i>Novitates</i> <i>Systematicae Plantarum nonVascularium</i> 14: 122, fig. 1, 2 (1977). — Typus: <i>Essenova &amp; Kerimova 15</i> (holo-, ASH; iso-, LE!). <i>Crataegus cinovskisii</i> Kassumova, <i>Botanicheskii Zhurnal</i> (Moscow &amp; Leningrad) 70: 266 (1985). — Typus: <i>Kassumova s.n.</i> (holo-, BAK). CHROMOSOME NUMBER. — 2n (4x) = 68. PHENOLOGY. — Flowering in May, mature fruit in August to October. DISTRIBUTION. — Nakhichevan and Kopet-Dagh in Turkmenistan: on mountain slopes, in scrub with <i>Cerasus</i>, <i>Cotoneaster</i>, <i>Rhamnus</i>, <i>Quercus</i> in vineyards and roadsides; 500-1600 m. SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — <b>Turkey.</b> &amp;Scedil;&amp;imath;rnak, Günyüzü village, <i>c.</i> 1700 m, 29.V.2002, <i>A.A.Dönmez 10759 – B. Mutlu</i> (flowering material); Beytü&amp;scedil;&amp;scedil;ebap, below Ba&amp;scedil;aran village, road side, 1146 m, 37°28’328”N, 38°08’488”E, 27.IX.2002, <i>A.A.Dönmez 11140</i> (fruiting material). DESCRIPTION Small tree or shrubs up to 6 m tall. Twigs densely to sparsely lanate-tomentose or lanate; thorns up to 15 mm long, rare. Buds 2.0-3.0 mm long, 1.8- 3.0 mm in diameter. Leaf blades more or less coriaceous, dark or bright green and more or less villose to appressed-pubescent above, more or less greyish green and more or less villose to appressed-pubescent throughout or only in vein axils beneath, cuneate or attenuate at base, lobes acute, margin coarsely crenate-serrate, basal pair of veins straight or divergent. Subterminal leaf blades of flowering shoots 3.2-4.5 cm long, 2.7-4.6 cm wide, lobes 2-3 pairs, basal pair 3.0-4.1 times as long as wide, extending 0.8-0.9times the width of lamina to midrib,each lobe with 1-5 teeth in the distal 2⁄5-1⁄9,basal pairs of sinuses in the basal 3⁄10-1⁄5 of lamina; petioles 7-15 mm long, 0.2-0.5 times as long as lamina; stipules 5-10 mm long, entire or with 3-6 teeth. Subterminal leaf blades of short shoots 4.0- 5.1 cm long, 3.2-4.9 cm wide, lobes 2-3 pairs, basal pairs 3.0-3.7 times as long as wide, extending 0.8-0.9 times the width of lamina to midrib, each lobe with 3-8 teeth in the distal 3⁄10-1⁄5, basal pairs of sinuses in the basal 2⁄5-1⁄5 of laminas; petiole 12-35 mm long, 0.3-0.7 times as long as lamina. Leaf blades of elongate shoots 3.7-5.0 cm long, 4.1-5.0 cm wide, lobes 2-3 pairs, basal pair 2.3-3.0 times as long as wide, extending <i>c.</i> 0.9 times the width of lamina to midrib, each lobe with 4-6 teeth in the distal 1/3-1/4, basal pair of sinuses in the basal 1⁄5-1⁄10 of lamina; petioles 10- 18 mm long, <i>c.</i> 0.4 times as long as lamina; stipules 8-14 mm long, entire or with 1-2 teeth. Inflorescence corymbose, 6-25 flowered, more or less lax, more or less lanate-tomentose or lanate; pedicels 2-17 mm long, more or less lanate-tomentose or lanate; bracts 2.1-2.6 mm long, 0.2-0.4 mm wide, 7.5-12.0 times as long as wide, caducous, margin with 0-2 teeth; sepals 1.2-2.1 mm long, 2.3-3.0 mm wide, broadly triangular, 0.5-0.8 times as long as wide, margin entire, apex obtuse or subacute; petals 4-5 mm long, <i>c.</i> 6 mm wide; stamens 15-20, anthers purple; styles 3-4 (-5). Fruit 7-18 mm long, 9-22 mm in diameter, 0.5-1.3 times as long as wide, depressedglobose or subglobose, orange to blackish red, more or less lanate-tomentose or lanate, crowned by the persistent, recurved or suberect sepals; pyrenes 3-4 (-5), dorsally sulcate, ventro-laterally more or less sulcate or smooth, hypostyle pilose. REMARK The species is the first record for the Turkish flora. It grows naturally in mountainous areas of &amp;Scedil;&amp;imath;rnak in eastern Turkey. The examined individuals have plenty of mature fruits. According to the IUCN (2001) criteria, the Turkish population of the species has no threat for extinction.
description: Published as part of <i>Dönmez, Ali A., 2014, Nomenclatural, taxonomic and biogeographic novelties in the Turkish Crataegus L. (Rosaceae-Maleae) taxa, pp. 245-253 in Adansonia (3) (3) 36 (2)</i> on pages 248-249, DOI: 10.5252/a2014n2a7, http://zenodo.org/record/5208582
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