Crataegus buckleyi

Beadle

Biltmore Bot. Stud. 1: 25. 1901.

Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 9. Treatment on page 589. Mentioned on page 587.

Shrubs or trees, 10–80 dm. Stems: compound thorns on larger trunks present; twigs: new growth reddish, glabrous, 1-year old dark reddish-brown, 2-years old dark ashy gray; thorns on twigs straight to slightly recurved, 2-years old dark chestnut-brown, slender, 2–4 cm. Leaves: petiole 1 mm wide, length 33–60% blade, glabrous, glandular; blade broadly elliptic to ovate or broadly ovate, 3–5 cm, subcoriaceous, base broadly cuneate, lobes 2 or 3 per side, sinuses moderately deep, lobe apex subacute, margins irregularly serrate, veins 3 or 4 per side, apex acute, surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences 3–7-flowered; branches glabrous; bracteole margins short-stipitate-glandular. Flowers 18–20 mm diam.; hypanthium glabrous; sepals 5 mm, margins glandular-pectinate proximally, glandular-serrate distally, abaxially glabrous; stamens 10, anthers purplish; styles 3–5. Pomes russet to red, suborbicular, angled, 8–12 mm diam., glabrous; sepals on collar, patent-reflexed; pyrenes 3–5.


Phenology: Flowering Apr; fruiting Sep–Oct.
Habitat: Pine, oak, hickory woodlands
Elevation: 50–300 m

Discussion

Crataegus buckleyi is pink-anthered like C. neobushii, but its leaf form is more like that of the common forms of sympatric C. intricata (cream anthers). Beadle suggested on some herbarium labels that C. buckleyi is usually a larger plant than the former, has relatively later anthesis, and stipitate glands along the proximal margins of the calyx. Crataegus communis is a related form with a more broadly elliptic leaf and stems only 10–20 dm.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
James B. Phipps +
Beadle +
orangebrown +
thin-exfoliating +  and corrugated +
compound +  and simple +
opposite +  and alternate +
cuneate +
Intricatae +
6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br /> (9 cm90 mm <br />0.09 m <br />) +
broadly elliptic +  and ovate or broadly ovate +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
subcoriaceous +
short-stipitate-glandular +
adnate +  and distinct +
crowded +, scattered +  and alternate +
Ala. +, Ga. +  and N.C. +
not +  and aggregated +
50–300 m +
less hard +  and mealy +
1.8 cm18 mm <br />0.018 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 />) +
gray +, dark ashy +, dark reddish-brown +  and reddish +
old +  and new +
Pine, oak, hickory woodlands +
constricted +
crassinucellate +
deciduous +
craspedodromous +
glandular-serrate +  and serrate +
glandular-pectinate +
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 paper brown +
free +  and distinct +
post-mature +
stipitate +  and sessile +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (?) +
Flowering Apr +  and fruiting Sep–Oct. +
adnate +, free +, connate +  and distinct +
dark gray-brown +  and russet +
exfoliating +  and corrugated +
pruinose +
russet +  and red +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
angled +  and suborbicular +
Biltmore Bot. Stud. +
not arillate +
persistent +
free +  and distinct +
patent-reflexed +
triangular +
nonaccrescent +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (?) +
1-50-flowered +  and few-leaved +
free +  and distinct +
branched +  and simple +
persistent +
distinct +
exsert +  and lateral +
elongate +
Crataegus sect. Flavae +  and Crataegus ser. +
Crataegus buckleyi +
Crataegus (sect. Coccineae) ser. Intricatae +
species +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br />) +
dark chestnut-brown +
straight +
slender +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
craspedodromous +  and gland-tipped +
inconspicuous +
buff to gray-brown +  and corrugated +
less erect +  and oblique +
1 +  and several +
straight +
determinate +
4 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
tree +  and shrub +