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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 bicknellii
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Agrimonia gryposepala
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Agrimonia microcarpa
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Agrimonia mollis
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Agrimonia parviflora
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Agrimonia platycarpa
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Agrimonia pubescens
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Agrimonia pumila
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Agrimonia rostellata
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Amelanchier arborea
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Amelanchier humilis
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Amelanchier mucronata
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Amelanchier oblongifolia
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Amelanchier stolonifera
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Amygdalus persica
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Armeniaca vulgaris
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Cerasus mahaleb
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Cercocarpus montanus
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Crataegus abbreviata
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Crataegus acanthacolonensis
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Crataegus acutifolia
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Crataegus albicans
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Crataegus algens
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Crataegus ambrosia
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Crataegus amicalis
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Crataegus ardula
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Crataegus arkansana
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Crataegus aspera
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Crataegus atrorubens
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Crataegus barrettiana
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Crataegus berberifolia
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Crataegus bicknellii
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Crataegus blanda
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Crataegus brachyphylla
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Crataegus bushii
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Crataegus calpodendron
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Crataegus canbyi
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Crataegus celsa
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Crataegus chapmanii
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Crataegus cherokeensis
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Crataegus cibaria
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Crataegus coccinioides
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Crataegus cocksii
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Crataegus cognata
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Crataegus collina
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Crataegus congesta
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Crataegus crawfordiana
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Crataegus crus-galli
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Crataegus danielsii
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Crataegus deltoides
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