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Sue Carnahan
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JANAS 33(1)
LEAVES: alternate (except Coleogyne), stipulate, simple to compound or dissected. PLANT: Plants herbaceous or woody. INFLORESCENCE: usually more or less cymose. FLOWERS: perfect, actinomorphic, often bearing 5 bracteoles; hypanthium bearing sepals, petals, and stamens; sepals usually 5; petals usually 5, distinct, often showy; stamens usually 10 many in whorls of 5; receptacle sometimes enlarged; pistils 1 many, each of 1 5 carpels, the ovaries superior to inferior. FRUIT: an achene, follicle, drupe, pome, hip, aggregate or accessory. x = 7 9, 14 17. NOTES: Ca. 100 genera, ca. 3,000 spp., worldwide, concentrated in temperate and subtropical n. hemisphere. Many cultivated for fruits (Fragaria, Malus, Prunus, Pyrus, Rubus, etc.) and as ornamentals (Crataegus, Pyracantha, Rosa, Sorbus, Spiraea, etc.). REFERENCES: Brasher, Jeffrey W. 2001. Rosaceae. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 33(1).
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Agrimonia gryposepala
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Agrimonia striata
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Amelanchier alnifolia
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Amelanchier nitens
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Amelanchier pumila
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Amelanchier utahensis
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Argentina anserina
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Cercocarpus breviflorus
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Cercocarpus intricatus
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Cercocarpus ledifolius
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Cercocarpus montanus
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Chaenomeles japonica
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Chaenomeles lagenaria
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Chamaebatiaria millefolium
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Coleogyne ramosissima
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Cotoneaster buxifolius
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Cotoneaster horizontalis
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Cotoneaster lacteus
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Cotoneaster pannosus
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Crataegus annosa
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Crataegus erythropoda
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Crataegus rivularis
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Crataegus succulenta
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Crataegus wootoniana
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Cydonia japonica
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Cydonia oblonga
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Dasiphora fruticosa
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Drymocallis arguta
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Drymocallis arizonica
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Drymocallis convallaria
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Drymocallis glandulosa
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Eriobotrya japonica
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Fallugia paradoxa
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Fragaria vesca
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Fragaria virginiana
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Fragaria x ananassa
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Geum aleppicum
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Geum macrophyllum
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Geum rossii
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Geum triflorum
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Heteromeles arbutifolia
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Holodiscus discolor
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Holodiscus dumosus
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Ivesia arizonica
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Ivesia multifoliolata
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Ivesia rhypara
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Ivesia sabulosa
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Malus communis
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Malus pumila
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Malus sylvestris
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