Cotoneaster simonsii

Baker in W. W. Saunders

in W. W. Saunders, Refug. Bot. 1: plate 55. 1869.

Common names: Khasiberry or Simon’s cotoneaster
IllustratedIntroduced
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 9. Treatment on page 460. Mentioned on page 449, 450, 453.

Shrubs, 2–4 (–6) m; ± strict or ascending, crown narrow or ± columnar. Stems erect, stiff; branches spiraled, divaricate, lateral branches ± straight, mostly suppressed, short, grayish brown, initially densely strigose. Leaves deciduous (sometimes tardily so on vigorous sprouts); petiole 3–5 mm, strigose; blade on vigorous shoots broadly elliptic to ovate, sometimes elliptic, rarely suborbiculate, 17–36 × 10–25 mm, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, base obtuse or cuneate, margins flat, veins 4 or 5, superficial or slightly sunken, apex acuminate or acute, abaxial surfaces light green, initially strigose, usually becoming sparsely so, adaxial green to dark green, shiny, not glaucous, flat or faintly bulging between lateral-veins, or slightly rugose, sparsely strigose; fall leaves yellow to bright orange or fiery red. Inflorescences on fertile shoots 15–30 mm with 4 leaves, 2–6-flowered, compact. Pedicels 2–5 mm, strigose. Flowers pendent, (5–) 8–10 mm, open; hypanthium campanulate, strigose; sepals: margins villous, borders narrow, glabrous, apex recurved, long acuminate or cuspidate, surfaces strigose; petals erect-incurved, dark red with white border; stamens 20, filaments pink, anthers white; styles (2 or) 3–5. Pomes bright orange to orange-red, usually obovoid, rarely cylindric or broadly obovoid, 7–14 × 6–10 mm, shiny, not glaucous, glabrous or sparsely villous; sepals erect or ascending, rarely nearly flat, margins villous, glabrous or sparsely villous; navel open; style remnants 2/3 from base. Pyrenes (2 or) 3–5.


Phenology: Flowering May–Jun; fruiting Oct–Apr.
Habitat: Shores, clearings, disturbed or open forests, thickets
Elevation: 0–200 m

Distribution

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Introduced; B.C., Calif., Oreg., Tenn., Wash., Asia (Bhutan), Asia (India), also in Europe, Pacific Islands (New Zealand)

Discussion

Reports of Cotoneaster simonsii from Ohio (M. A. Vincent and A. W. Cusick 1998; T. S. Cooperrider et al. 2001) are here referred to C. divaricatus. The binomial C. symondsii T. Moore was proposed as an earlier name for C. simonsii (A. Kumar and G. Panigrahi 1992; W. B. Dickoré and G. Kasperek 2010), but J. Fryer and P. F. Zika (2014) typified C. symondsii so that it is a synonym of the high Himalayan species C. marginatus Lindley ex Loudon.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

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... more about "Cotoneaster simonsii"
red +, yellow +  and bright orange +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
cuspidate;acuminate;long +
Jeanette Fryer +, Bertil Hylmö† +  and Peter F. Zika +
Baker in W. W. Saunders +
compound +  and simple +
opposite +  and alternate +
15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br /> (21 cm210 mm <br />0.21 m <br />) +
ovate +, lanceolate +, orbiculate +  and elliptic to linear +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br />) +
leathery +  and membranous +
divaricate +  and spiraled +
adnate +  and distinct +
strigose +  and tomentose +
Khasiberry or Simon’s cotoneaster +
columnar +
B.C. +, Calif. +, Oreg. +, Tenn. +, Wash. +, Asia (Bhutan) +, Asia (India) +, also in Europe +  and Pacific Islands (New Zealand) +
not +  and aggregated +
0–200 m +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
hairy +  and glabrous +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
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 />) +
Shores, clearings, disturbed or open forests, thickets +
campanulate +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
flattened +  and domed +
crassinucellate +
deciduous +
pinnate +  and entire +
villous +  and glabrous +
2 (?) +  and 14 (?) +
revolute +  and flat +
inferior +  and superior +
biseriate +  and clustered +
collateral +  and basal +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 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 +
erect-incurved +
1 +  and 5 +
orbiculate;spatulate +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
Flowering May–Jun +  and fruiting Oct–Apr. +
adnate +, free +, connate +  and distinct +
bright orange +  and orange-red +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (1.4 cm14 mm <br />0.014 m <br />) +
villous +, glabrous +  and not glaucous +
obovoid +  and cylindric +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
in W. W. Saunders, Refug. Bot. +
trigonous +  and planoconvex +
not arillate +
persistent +
free +  and distinct +
ascending +  and erect +
triangular +
tomentose +  and strigose +
Illustrated +  and Introduced +
free +  and distinct +
branched +  and simple +
1 +  and 25 +
short-adnate +
inconspicuous +
lanceolate;linear +
deciduous +
distinct +
lateral +  and terminal +
elongate +
Ostinia +
Cotoneaster simonsii +
Cotoneaster +
species +
inconspicuous +
400 cm4,000 mm <br />4 m <br /> (600 cm6,000 mm <br />6 m <br />) +