Moupin cotoneaster

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Moupin cotoneaster
Systematics
Family : Rose family (Rosaceae)
Subfamily : Spiraeoideae
Tribe : Pyreae
Sub tribus : Pome fruit family (Pyrinae)
Genre : Medlars ( Cotoneaster )
Type : Moupin cotoneaster
Scientific name
Cotoneaster moupinensis
Franch.

The Moupin cotoneaster ( Cotoneaster moupinensis ) is a deciduous shrub up to 5 meters high with black fruits from the group of the pome fruits (Pyrinae). The natural range of the species is in China. It is often used as an ornamental plant.

description

The Moupin coton loquat is a deciduous, up to 5 meters high, sparsely branched shrub with slender and often overhanging branches. The twigs are black-gray, covered with conspicuous cork pores , stalk-round, initially curly haired and gradually balding. The leaves are divided into a petiole and a leaf blade. The petiole is 2 to 4 seldom to 8 millimeters long and hairy. The stipules fall off early. The leaf blade is simple, oval-ovate to rhombic-ovate, 4 to 12 millimeters long and 2 to 4.5 millimeters wide, pointed and with a broadly wedge-shaped or rounded base. The upper side of the leaf is glossy dark green, slightly finely hairy, wrinkled, with sunken leaf veins ; the underside is light green and hairy along the protruding leaf veins.

The inflorescences are panicles of 9 to 25 flowers with a hairy inflorescence spindle. The bracts are lanceolate and sparsely hairy. The flower stalks are also hairy and 2 to 3 millimeters long. The flowers are 8 to 10 millimeters in diameter. The flower cup is bell-shaped and hairy on the outside. The sepals are triangular and pointed. The petals stand upright, they are pink, egg-shaped or rounded, 3 to 4 millimeters long and 2 to 3 millimeters wide, with a blunt tip. The approximately 20 stamens are shorter than the petals. The tip of the ovary is hairy. The four to five free-standing styles are shorter than the stamens. The black, round or obovate fruits are 6 to 8 millimeters in diameter. Four or five pips are formed per fruit. The Moupin Cotoneaster flowers from June to July, the fruits ripen from September to October.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 68.

Occurrence and location requirements

The natural range is in the Chinese provinces of Gansu , Guizhou , Hubei , Ningxia , Shaanxi , Sichuan , Xizang and Yunnan . The Moupin coton loquat grows in species-rich forests and groups of trees at an altitude of 1300 to 3200 meters on moderately dry to fresh, slightly acidic to alkaline, nutrient-rich soils in sunny to partially shaded locations. The species tolerates heat, is robust, tolerates urban climates and is usually frost hardy .

Systematics

The Moupin-cotoneaster ( Cotoneaster moupinensis ) is a kind of the genus of cotoneaster ( Cotoneaster ). It is in the family of the rose family (Rosaceae) of the subfamily spiraeoideae, tribes of the subtribe Pyreae maloideae assigned (Pyrinae). The species was first scientifically described in 1886 by Adrien René Franchet .

use

The Moupin Cotoneaster is often used as an ornamental shrub .

proof

literature

  • Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (Eds.): Flora of China . Volume 9: Pittosporaceae through Connaraceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 2003, ISBN 1-930723-14-8 , pp. 100 (English).
  • Andreas Roloff , Andreas Bärtels: Flora of the woods. Purpose, properties and use. With a winter key from Bernd Schulz. 3rd, corrected edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5614-6 , p. 232.
  • Jost Fitschen: Woody flora . 12th, revised and expanded edition. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2007, ISBN 3-494-01422-1 , p. 437-438 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German name according to Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 232 and according to Fitschen: Gehölzflora , p. 437
  2. ↑ a b c d Zhi-Yun Zhang, Hongda Zhang, Peter K. Endress: Cotoneaster moupinensis , in: Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (eds.): Flora of China . Volume 9: Pittosporaceae through Connaraceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 2003, ISBN 1-930723-14-8 , pp. 100 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 232
  4. ↑ a b Cotoneaster moupinensis. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed May 1, 2012 .
  5. ↑ D. Potter, T. Eriksson, RC Evans, S. Oh, JEE Smedmark, DR Morgan, M. Kerr, KR Robertson, M. Arsenault, TA Dickinson, CS Campbell: Phylogeny and classification of Rosaceae . Plant Systematics and Evolution, Volume 266, 2007, pp. 5-43. doi : 10.1007 / s00606-007-0539-9

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