Cotoneaster integerrimus, Medicus

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 72

3. C. integerrimus Medicus , Gesch. Bot. 85 (1793)

(C. vulgaris Lindley ).

Erect, branched, deciduous shrub up to 2 m. Young twigs tomentose, soon glabrous. Leaves 2-5 x 0-5-3 cm, sub- orbicular to ovate, obtuse or, especially on the long shoots, acute, usually mucronate, roundedat the base, glabrous above, greyishtomentose beneath, petiolate. Flowers 2-3(-4) in short, glabrous cymes. Calyx glabrous, or pubescent at margin. Petals pink. Fruit 6-8 mm, subglobose, red; pyrenes (2-)3(-4). Dry, stony places, mainly in the mountains; somewhat calcicole. Much of Europe, but absent from most of the U.S.S.R., the extreme north, and much of the Mediterranean region. Al Au Be Br Bu Cz Da Fe Ga Ge Gr He Hs Hu It Ju No Po Rm Rs (B, W, K) Su.