Crataegus ×sicca

Crataegus ×sicca Sargent

Crataegus Missouri, 101. 1908.

Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 9. Treatment on page 641. Mentioned on page 525, 527, 594, 595, 642.

Shrubs, 20–50 dm. Stems: twigs: new growth glabrate, 1-year old purple-brown, 2-years old dark gray-brown; thorns on twigs straight, 2-years old black, 3–7 cm. Leaves: petiole length 50% blade, winged distally, glandular; blade green, rhombic to rhombic-ovate, 2–4 cm, base cuneate, lobes 2–4 per side, sinuses shallow, lobe apex acute or rounded, margins finely, serrate, venation craspedodromous, veins 5 per side, apex acute, veins abaxially sparsely pilose young, persistent, adaxial glabrous or sparsely appressed-pilose young, glabrescent. Inflorescences 4–6-flowered; branches glabrous or sparsely, sometimes densely, villous; bracteoles caducous, numerous, reddish, linear, membranous, margins glandular. Flowers 10–20 mm diam.; hypanthium glabrous; sepals narrowly triangular, margins glandular-serrate, abaxial surface glabrous; stamens 10, anthers cream, sometimes pale-pink; styles 3–5. Pomes pale orange, strongly pruinose, or deep red, suborbicular, 10 mm diam., glabrous; flesh soft when mature; sepals patent-reflexed; pyrenes 3–5, dorsally grooved, sides plane.

Discussion

Crataegus ×sicca is a poorly understood taxon from scattered locations in southern Missouri and southern Ohio. It is likely an interserial hybrid between C. margarettae and one or more entities in the C. pruinosa complex.

Nothovarieties 2 (2 in the flora)

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Key

1 Flowers 18–20 mm diam.; inflorescence branches and leaves villous. Crataegus ×sicca nothovar. sicca
1 Flowers 10–14 mm diam.; inflorescence branches and leaves glabrous. Crataegus ×sicca nothovar. glabrifolia

"thin" is not a number."winged" is not a number."adnate" is not a number.

... more about "Crataegus ×sicca"
glabrescent +, appressed-pilose +  and glabrous +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
pale-pink +  and cream +
James B. Phipps +
Crataegus ×sicca Sargent +
compound +  and simple +
opposite +  and alternate +
cuneate +
8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br /> (12 cm120 mm <br />0.12 m <br />) +
rhombic +  and rhombic-ovate +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
coriaceous +
villous +, sparsely +  and glabrous +
adnate +  and distinct +
crowded +, scattered +  and alternate +
c United States +
not +  and aggregated +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
not +  and aggregated +
not +  and aggregated +
yellow +  and red or purplish +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
dark gray-brown +  and purple-brown +
old +  and new +
constricted +
crassinucellate +
deciduous +
craspedodromous +
glandular-serrate +  and serrate +
serrate +  and crenate +
inferior +  and superior +
biseriate +  and clustered +
collateral +  and basal +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
elliptic +  and circular +
0 (?) +  and 4 (?) +
pale-pink +, pale cream +  and white +
free +  and distinct +
adnate +, free +, connate +  and distinct +
dark gray-brown +  and russet +
exfoliating +  and corrugated +
pruinose +
red +  and pale orange +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (?) +
suborbicular +
Crataegus Missouri, +
not arillate +
persistent +
free +  and distinct +
patent-reflexed +
triangular +
1-50-flowered +  and few-leaved +
free +  and distinct +
branched +  and simple +
persistent +
distinct +
exsert +  and lateral +
elongate +
glabrous +  and tomentose +
Crataegus ×sicca +
Crataegus +
species +
6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br /> (10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br />) +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br />) +
craspedodromous +  and gland-tipped +
inconspicuous +
straight +
persistent +