Cotoneaster hodjingensis

G. Klotz

Wiss. Z. Martin-Luther-Univ. Halle-Wittenberg, Math.-Naturwiss. Reihe 12: 774. 1963.

Common names: Earthquake cotoneaster
Introduced
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 9. Treatment on page 458. Mentioned on page 451.

Shrubs, sprawling, 0.5 (–1.5) m. Stems erect, becoming suberect, ascending, widespreading; branches spiraled, dense, maroon, stiff, minutely verruculose, initially densely pilose or villose-strigose, later sparsely so. Leaves persistent; petiole 1–2 mm, tomentose; blade narrowly elliptic, sometimes lance-elliptic, rarely lanceolate, 5–11 × 2–6 mm, coriaceous, base narrowly cuneate, margins slightly revolute, veins 2–4, slightly sunken, apex acute or obtuse with long mucro, abaxial surfaces grayish-white-tomentose, adaxial dark green, shiny, not glaucous, minutely rugose and verruculose, flat between lateral-veins, initially pilose-strigose, soon glabrate. Inflorescences on fertile shoots 10–20 mm with 4 leaves, 1 (–3) -flowered. Pedicels 1–3 mm, tomentose. Flowers erect, 7–8 mm diam.; buds white; hypanthium funnelform, densely villous, becoming glabrate; sepals: margins villous, apex cuspidate or acuminate, surfaces tomentose; petals spreading, white, glabrous or hairy; stamens 20, filaments white, anthers purple; styles 2. Pomes bright red, sometimes tinged crimson or cherry, globose, subglobose, or depressed-globose, 6–7 × 5–8 mm, shiny, not glaucous, sparsely villous; sepals suberect or erect as coronet, villous to sparsely so; navel open with pyrenes exserted; style remnants at apex. Pyrenes 2.2n = 68 (Germany).


Phenology: Flowering Jun; fruiting Oct–Nov.
Habitat: Banks, disturbed ground
Elevation: 0–50 m

Distribution

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Introduced; Calif., Wash., Asia (China)

Discussion

Cotoneaster hodjingensis sometimes is synonymized with C. buxifolius Wallich ex Lindley (Zhou L. H. and Wu Z. Y. 2001; L. Lingdi and A. R. Brach 2003), a species from southern India with elliptic to ovate-elliptic, usually obtuse (rarely short-acute) leaves to 17 mm, petioles to 4 mm, 1–9 flowers per inflorescence (to 20 on end shoots), and a tomentose hypanthium. Here, C. hodjingensis is treated as separable by its normally narrower leaves no longer than 11 mm, usually acute, with petioles to 2 mm, solitary flowers (2 or 3 flowers per inflorescence on end shoots), and villous hypanthium becoming glabrate (G. Klotz 1963).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

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... more about "Cotoneaster hodjingensis"
grayish-white-tomentose +
glabrate +, pilose-strigose +  and not glaucous +
verruculose +  and rugose +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
acuminate;cuspidate;obtuse;acute +
Jeanette Fryer +, Bertil Hylmö† +  and Peter F. Zika +
G. Klotz +
compound +  and simple +
opposite +  and alternate +
cuneate +
lance-elliptic +  and elliptic +
15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br /> (21 cm210 mm <br />0.21 m <br />) +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
lanceolate +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br />) +
coriaceous +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (?) +  and 0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (?) +
villose-strigose +  and pilose +
verruculose +
adnate +  and distinct +
strigose +  and tomentose +
Earthquake cotoneaster +
Calif. +, Wash. +  and Asia (China) +
not +  and aggregated +
0–50 m +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
hairy +  and glabrous +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
not +  and aggregated +
not +  and aggregated +
1.4 cm14 mm <br />0.014 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
orange +  and red or purple +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (1.4 cm14 mm <br />0.014 m <br />) +
Banks, disturbed ground +
glabrate +  and villous +
campanulate +  and cupulate +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
flattened +  and domed +
crassinucellate +
persistent +
pinnate +  and entire +
2 (?) +  and 14 (?) +
revolute +  and flat +
inferior +  and superior +
biseriate +  and clustered +
collateral +  and basal +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
0 (?) +  and 4 (?) +
free +  and distinct +
hairy +  and glabrous +
1 +  and 5 +
orbiculate;spatulate +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
Flowering Jun +  and fruiting Oct–Nov. +
adnate +, free +, connate +  and distinct +
cherry +, tinged crimson +  and bright red +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
villous +  and not glaucous +
depressed-globose +, subglobose +  and globose +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
Wiss. Z. Martin-Luther-Univ. Halle-Wittenberg, Math.-Naturwiss. Reihe +
trigonous +  and planoconvex +
not arillate +
persistent +
free +  and distinct +
erect +  and suberect +
triangular +
tomentose +  and strigose +
Introduced +
free +  and distinct +
branched +  and simple +
widespreading +, ascending +, suberect +  and erect +
1 +  and 25 +
short-adnate +
inconspicuous +
lanceolate;linear +
deciduous +
distinct +
lateral +  and terminal +
elongate +
Ostinia +
Cotoneaster hodjingensis +
Cotoneaster +
species +
inconspicuous +
2 (?) +  and 4 (?) +
50 cm500 mm <br />0.5 m <br /> (150 cm1,500 mm <br />1.5 m <br />) +