Cotoneaster nummularia, Fischer & C. A. Meyer
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9. C. nummularia Fischer & C. A. Meyer View in CoL , Ind. Sem. Horti Petrop. 2: 34 (1835).
Erect, deciduous shrub up to 1-5 m, but sometimes dwarfed by exposure; young twigs grey-tomentose. Leaves 1-2-5 x 0-9-2-2 cm, broadly elliptical, obovate, or suborbicular, obtuse, mucronate, sometimes emarginate, sparsely hairy above when young, whitish- or greyish-tomentose beneath; petiole 1-5-2-5 mm, tomentose. Inflorescence 3- to 7-flowered, dense. Hypanthium and calyx tomentose. Fruit c. 8 mm, subglobose, red, whitish-pubescent when young, becoming glabrous; pyrenes 2. Kriti. Cr. (C. & S. W. Asia, N. Africa.)
The plant from Kriti has pink petals, though over the rest of its range the species has white petals.
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Cotoneaster nummularia
| Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1981 |
C. nummularia
| Fischer & C. A. Meyer 1835: 34 |
