Crataegus egregia

Beadle

Biltmore Bot. Stud. 1: 82. 1902.

Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 9. Treatment on page 613. Mentioned on page 612.

Trees, 40–60 dm. Stems: trunk bark dark, very rough; twigs ± flexuous, new growth pubescent, 1-year old brown, older grayish; thorns on twigs absent or several, straight, 1–2-years old dark, slender, 3–4 cm. Leaves: petiole slender, length 30–50% blade, pubescent, very sessile-glandular; blade rhombic, 1.5–2.5 cm anthesis, 2–3 cm mature, thin, base cuneate, lobes 1 (or 2) per side, sinuses moderately deep, well defined, lobe apex acute to ± obtuse, margins shallowly crenate, teeth gland-tipped, veins 3 per side, apex acute to subacute, abaxial surface glabrate, adaxial sparsely hairy young, glabrescent. Inflorescences 3-flowered; branches hairy; bracteoles caducous, greenish, narrowly oblong, margins glandular. Flowers 15 mm diam.; hypanthium sparsely pilose; sepals narrowly triangular from wide bases, margins subentire to glandular on barely discernible teeth, abaxially glabrous; stamens 20, anthers bright purple; styles 3 or 4. Pomes red, slightly pyriform, 9–12 mm diam., glabrous; sepals reflexed; pyrenes 3 or 4.


Phenology: Flowering Apr; fruiting Sep–Oct.
Habitat: Open brush, open woodlands
Elevation: 0–100 m

Discussion

Crataegus egregia was described from Bristol, Florida, and is understood primarily from its type. It is in some ways like C. egens (ser. Lacrimatae) but with larger, more rhombic leaf blades, purple anthers, and where present, longer thorns. South Carolina specimens are thorny; the type material is thornless. Material represented by about six specimens, with similar leaves but more or less tomentose pedicels and much smaller pomes, is also known.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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... more about "Crataegus egregia"
glabrous +, glabrescent +  and hairy +
glabrescent +  and hairy +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
bright purple +
acute;subacute +
James B. Phipps +
Beadle +
thin-exfoliating +  and corrugated +
compound +  and simple +
opposite +  and alternate +
cuneate +
8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br /> (12 cm120 mm <br />0.12 m <br />) +
mature +  and anthesis +
rhombic +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
coriaceous +
rather than pendent +  and spreading +
adnate +  and distinct +
crowded +, scattered +  and alternate +
Ala. +, Fla. +, Ga. +  and S.C. +
not +  and aggregated +
0–100 m +
15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 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 />) +
grayish +  and brown +
older +, old +  and new +
Open brush, open woodlands +
constricted +
crassinucellate +
deciduous +
craspedodromous +
subentire +  and crenate +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
inferior +  and superior +
biseriate +  and clustered +
collateral +  and basal +
larger +  and reduced +
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 +
Flowering Apr +  and fruiting Sep–Oct. +
adnate +, free +, connate +  and distinct +
dark gray-brown +  and russet +
exfoliating +  and corrugated +
pruinose +
0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
pyriform +
Biltmore Bot. Stud. +
not arillate +
persistent +
free +  and distinct +
triangular +
nonaccrescent +
1-50-flowered +  and few-leaved +
free +  and distinct +
branched +  and simple +
persistent +
distinct +
exsert +  and lateral +
elongate +
glabrous +  and tomentose +
Crataegus egregia +
Crataegus (sect. Coccineae) ser. Apricae +
species +
6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br /> (10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br />) +
straight +
slender +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
gland-tipped +
discernible +
inconspicuous +
less erect +  and oblique +
1 +  and several +
flexuous +
determinate +