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16. ERIOBOTRYA Lindley, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 13: 96, 102. 1821.

枇杷属 pi ba shu

Gu Cuizhi (Ku Tsue-chih); Stephen A. Spongberg

Trees or shrubs, evergreen. Leaves simple; stipulate, usually petiolate, venation craspedodromous or camptodromous, margin serrate or entire. Inflorescences terminal panicles, numerous flowered. Hypanthium cupular or obconical. Sepals 5, persistent. Petals 5, white or yellow, obovate or orbicular, base clawed. Stamens 20. Ovary inferior, 2–5-loculed, with 2 ovules per locule; styles 2–5, connate at base and often pubescent. Fruit a pome with persistent incurved sepals, fleshy or dry, endocarp (core) membranous, with 1 or 2 large seeds.

About 30 species: E Asia; 14 species (three endemic) in China.


1 Leaves including petiole glabrous.   14 E. elliptica
+ Leaves pubescent, petiole pubescent or glabrous.   (2)
       
2 (1) Leaves abaxially sparsely pubescent or rusty or gray tomentose.   (3)
+ Leaves brown or brownish yellow tomentose when young, glabrescent.   (7)
       
3 (2) Leaf margin remotely 4–10-serrate apically, entire basally.   (4)
+ Leaf margin remotely serrate or undulate, entire basally.   (5)
       
4 (3) Leaves abaxially initially rusty pubescent, glabrescent; flowers large, stalked, petals 6–8 mm, entire at apex.   4 E. tengyuehensis
+ Leaves abaxially yellow villous; flowers small, stalked or sessile, petals ca. 5 mm, truncate, slightly emarginate, or 2-lobed at apex.   5 E. salwinensis
       
5 (3) Leaf margin undulate, blade 7–15 cm; styles 2, rarely 3.   3 E. prinoides
+ Leaf margin remotely serrate, blade 12–40 cm; styles 3–5.   (6)
       
6 (5) Leaf blade lanceolate, oblanceolate, obovate, or elliptic-oblong, 12–30 × 3–9 cm, adaxially rugose, abaxially densely grayish brown tomentose; styles 5.   1 E. japonica
+ Leaf blade oblong to oblong-obovate, 30–40 × 10–15 cm, adaxially not rugose, abaxially densely rusty tomentose; styles 3–5.   2 E. malipoensis
       
7 (2) Leaf margin remotely inconspicuously serrate apically, entire basally.   6 E. fragrans
+ Leaf margin serrate along entire length.   (8)
       
8 (7) Petiole ca. 1.5 cm or less.   (9)
+ Petiole 1.5 cm or longer.   (10)
       
9 (8) Stamens 10; styles 2; leaf blade lanceolate or oblanceolate, very rarely ovate-oblong, apex acute, margin remotely sharply serrate.   12 E. henryi
+ Stamens 15; styles 3 or 4; leaf blade oblong or obovate-oblong, apex obtuse or acute, margin incurved-serrate.   13 E. seguinii
       
10 (8) Leaf blade obovate or oblanceolate.   (11)
+ Leaf blade oblong, elliptic, oblong-lanceolate, oblong-oblanceolate, or lanceolate.   (12)
       
11 (10) Flowers sessile; styles 3 or 4; leaf blade 9–23 × 3.5–13 cm.   7 E. serrata
+ Flowers pedicellate, pedicel 2–4 mm; styles 2 or 3; leaf blade 5–15 × 2–6 cm.   8 E. obovata
       
12 (10) Leaf margin incised-serrate; peduncle and pedicels tomentose.   9 E. bengalensis var. angustifolia
+ Leaf margin serrate or crenate; peduncle and pedicels subglabrous or rusty tomentose.   (13)
       
13 (12) Leaf margin shallowly but sharply serrate, not revolute; peduncle and pedicels sparsely pubescent or subglabrous.   10 E. cavaleriei
+ Leaf margin coarsely obtusely serrate and revolute; peduncle and pedicels densely rusty tomentose.   11 E. deflexa

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