Cotoneaster salicifolius

Franchet

Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat., sér. 2, 8: 225. 1885.

Common names: Willow-leaved cotoneaster
Introduced
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 9. Treatment on page 454. Mentioned on page 452.
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Shrubs or trees, 1–8 m. Stems erect or arching [prostrate]; branches spiraled or distichous, arching, maroon, slender, initially tomentose-strigose. Leaves persistent; petiole 3–8 mm, tomentose-strigose; blade narrowly elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, 30–90 × 8–23 mm, coriaceous, base cuneate, margins strongly revolute, veins 7–12, deeply sunken, apex gradually tapered, acute or acuminate, abaxial surfaces grayish green, initially densely villous, becoming glabrous or glabrate, adaxial dark green, shiny, not glaucous, bulging between lateral-veins, sparsely pilose initially. Inflorescences on fertile shoots 20–60 mm with 3 or 4 leaves, 10–50-flowered, compact. Pedicels 0.5–3 (–4 mm), densely strigose-villous. Flowers (5–) 6–9 mm diam.; buds white; hypanthium funnelform, pilose; sepals: margins sparsely villous, apex acute, surfaces sparsely pilose; petals spreading, white, glabrous; stamens 20, filaments white, anthers red-purple; styles 2 or 3 (or 4). Pomes bright red (or with hint of crimson), broadly obovoid to globose, (5–) 6–8.5 x (5–) 6–8 mm, shiny, not glaucous, sparsely pilose; sepals depressed or flat, sparsely pilose; navel slightly open; style remnants at apex. Pyrenes 2 or 3 (or 4). 2n = 34 (Germany).


Phenology: Flowering May–Jun; fruiting Oct–Apr.
Habitat: Thickets, mossy cliffs, cracks in walls, lakeshores, urban waste ground
Elevation: 0–200 m

Distribution

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Introduced; B.C., Wash., Asia (China: Sichuan), Asia (Xizang), also in Europe

Discussion

L. Lingdi and A. R. Brach (2003) included as varieties of Cotoneaster salicifolius several taxa that here are considered full species, such as C. henryanus (C. K. Schneider) Rehder & E. H. Wilson, C. hylmoei Flinck & J. Fryer, and C. rugosus E. Pritzel.

A horticultural hybrid, presumably between Cotoneaster dammeri and C. salicifolius, is known in gardens as the cultivar Cotoneaster 'Hybridus Pendulus' and was recently collected as a local escape from cultivation in King County, Washington. This hybrid would key to C. x\suecicus but differs in its limp branching, much larger leaves (20–80 × 10–30 mm) and more numerous and smaller diameter flowers (9–11 mm wide). The foliage of the hybrid closely resembles C. salicifolius, but it has fewer (4–13) and larger flowers and is less than 1 m in height.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"dm" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.

... more about "Cotoneaster salicifolius"
glabrate +, glabrous +  and villous +
pilose +  and not glaucous +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
acute;acuminate;acute;tapered +
Jeanette Fryer +, Bertil Hylmö† +  and Peter F. Zika +
Franchet +
compound +  and simple +
opposite +  and alternate +
cuneate +
15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br /> (21 cm210 mm <br />0.21 m <br />) +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (9 cm90 mm <br />0.09 m <br />) +
narrowly elliptic +  and elliptic-lanceolate +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br />) +
coriaceous +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (?) +  and 2.3 cm23 mm <br />0.023 m <br /> (?) +
distichous +  and spiraled +
tomentose-strigose +
slender +
adnate +  and distinct +
strigose +  and tomentose +
Willow-leaved cotoneaster +
B.C. +, Wash. +, Asia (China: Sichuan) +, Asia (Xizang) +  and also in Europe +
not +  and aggregated +
0–200 m +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 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 />) +
Thickets, mossy cliffs, cracks in walls, lakeshores, urban waste ground +
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 +
strigose-villous +
0.5 +  and 3 +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
0 (?) +  and 4 (?) +
free +  and distinct +
1 +  and 5 +
orbiculate;spatulate +
tomentose-strigose +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
Flowering May–Jun +  and fruiting Oct–Apr. +
adnate +, free +, connate +  and distinct +
bright red +
pilose +  and not glaucous +
broadly obovoid +  and globose +
Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat., sér. +
trigonous +  and planoconvex +
not arillate +
persistent +
free +  and distinct +
erect +  and incurved +
flat +  and depressed +
tomentose +  and strigose +
Introduced +
free +  and distinct +
branched +  and simple +
arching +  and erect +
1 +  and 25 +
short-adnate +
inconspicuous +
lanceolate;linear +
deciduous +
distinct +
lateral +  and terminal +
elongate +
Ostinia +
Cotoneaster salicifolius +
Cotoneaster +
species +
inconspicuous +
7 (?) +  and 12 (?) +
tree +  and shrub +