| Malus fisca (Raf.) Schneid. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Malus diversifolia (Bong.) Roem., Pyrus diversifolia Bong., Malus rivularis (Dougl.) Roem., Pyrus rivularis Dougl., Pyrus fusca Raf. | ||
| Common name | oregon crab apple | ||
| Description | Shrub or small tree, with several, somewhat thorny stems; young twigs pubes- cent; leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, mostly acute, serrate and often with 3 shal- low lobes, glabrous or sparsely pubescent and dark green above, pale and more or less pubescent or tomentose beneath; inflorescence corymbose, few-flowered; calyx lobes lanceolate-triangular; petals white or pink, broadly obovate; stamens about 20; fruit obovate, 3—4-chambered, purplish, containing pectin. | ||
| Ecology | Moist woods. Type locality not given. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.