The Wayback Machine - http://web.archive.org/web/20141020011152/http://zipcodezoo.com/Key/Plantae/Pyreae_Tribe.asp
font settings

Font Size: Large | Normal | Small
Font Face: Verdana | Geneva | Georgia

Pyreae

(Tribe)

Overview

[ Back to top ]

Photos

[ Back to top ]

Taxonomy

[ Back to top ]

The Tribe Pyreae is a member of the Subfamily Maloideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Pyreae:

The Tribe Pyreae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Genera

[ Back to top ]

Amelanchier

Amelanchier (pronounced  am-?-lan-sheer), also known as shadbush, shadwood or shadblow, serviceberry or sarvisberry, wild pear, juneberry, saskatoon, sugarplum or wild-plum, and chuckley pear is a genus of about 20 species of deciduous-leaved shrubs and small trees in the Rose family (Rosaceae). [more]

Aronia

Aronia, the chokeberries, are two to three species of deciduous shrubs in the family Rosaceae, native to eastern North America. They are most commonly found in wet woods and swamps. Chokeberries are cultivated as ornamental plants and also because they are very high in antioxidant pigment compounds, like anthocyanins. The name "chokeberry" comes from the astringency of the fruits, which are inedible when raw. The berries can be used to make wine, jam, syrup, juice, soft spreads, tea and tinctures. The fruits are eaten by birds, which then disperse the seeds in their droppings; birds do not taste astringency and feed on them freely. [more]

Dichotomanthes

Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, simple, venation camptodromous, margin entire, rarely serrate; stipules caducous, small; petiole short. Inflorescences terminal, compound-corymbose, many flowered; bracts usually caducous. Hypanthium campanulate. Calyx fleshy and enlarged in fruit, with 2 bracteoles basally; sepals 5, white, suborbicular or obovate. Stamens (15-) 20; filaments alternately shorter; anthers didymous. Carpel 1, inserted at base of hypanthium; ovary superior, 1-loculed; style subterminal to lateral; stigma discoid, margin irregular; ovules 2, collateral, erect. Fruit dry, usually exserted from fleshy hypanthium, sepals persistent and erect; carpel leathery, 1-seeded; seeds compressed; cotyledons plano-convex.[1] [more]

Eriobotrya

Eriobotrya is a genus of about ten species of large evergreen shrubs and small trees in the family Rosaceae, native to east and southeast Asia. By far the best known species is the Loquat, E. japonica, grown for its edible fruit. [more]

Eriolobus

[more]

Heteromeles

Heteromeles arbutifolia (; more commonly /h?t?'r?m?li?z/ by California botanists), and commonly known as Toyon, is a common perennial shrub native to California down to Baja California. [more]

Macromeles

[more]

Malus

Malus ( or /'m?l?s/), the apples, are a genus of about 30?35 species of small deciduous trees or shrubs in the family Rosaceae. Other studies go as far as 55 species including the domesticated Orchard Apple, or Table apple as it was formerly called (M. domestica, derived from M. sieversii, sometimes mistakenly called M. pumila). The other species and subspecies are generally known as "wild apples", "crab apples", "crabapples" or "crabs". [more]

Peraphyllum

Peraphyllum is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the rose family containing the single species Peraphyllum ramosissimum, commonly known as the squaw apple or wild crab apple. It is a shrub which may reach 3 metres (9.8 ft) in height and bears small pomes about 1 centimetre (0.39 in) wide. Peraphyllum is most closely related to Amelanchier, Malacomeles, Crataegus, and Mespilus. [more]

Photinia

Photinia () is a genus of about 40?60 species of small trees and large shrubs in the Rosaceae family. As interpreted here, the natural range of these species is restricted to warm temperate Asia, from the Himalaya east to Japan and south to India and Thailand. They have, however, been widely cultivated throughout the world as ornamentals for their white flowers and red fruits. [more]

Pyrus

Trees or shrubs, deciduous, rarely semi-evergreen, sometimes armed. Leaves alternate, simple, petiolate, stipulate, involute in bud, venation camptodromous, margin serrate or entire, rarely lobed. Inflorescences corymbose-racemose. Flowers precocious or synantherous. Hypanthium cupular. Sepals 5, reflexed or spreading. Petals 5, white, rarely pink, clawed. Stamens 15-30; anthers usually dark red or purple. Ovary inferior, 2-5-loculed, with 2 ovules per locule; styles 2-5, free. Pome with juicy pulp, rich in stone cells, 2-5-celled, with cartilaginous endocarp (core), with persistent or caducous sepals; seeds black or blackish brown, seed coat cartilaginous; cotyledons plano-convex.[2] [more]

Rhaphiolepis

Rhaphiolepis (syn. Raphiolepis Lindl.) is a genus of about 15 species of evergreen shrubs and small trees in the family Rosaceae, native to warm temperate and subtropical eastern and southeastern Asia, from southern Japan, southern Korea and southern China south to Thailand and Vietnam. The genus is closely related to Eriobotrya (loquats). The common name hawthorn (shared with the related genus Crataegus) is used for the species. [more]

Sorbus

Sorbus is a genus of about 100?200 species of trees and shrubs in the Rose family Rosaceae. Species of Sorbus (s.l.) are commonly known as whitebeam, rowan, service tree, and mountain-ash. The exact number of species is disputed depending on the circumscription of the genus, and also due to the number of apomictic microspecies, which some treat as distinct species but others group in a smaller number of variable species. Recent treatments treat Sorbus in a narrower sense to include only the pinnate leaved species of subgenus Sorbus, raising several of the other subgenera to generic rank. [more]

At least 1,519 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Sorbus.

More info about the Genus Sorbus may be found here.

Bibliography

[ Back to top ]

Footnotes

[ Back to top ]
  1. Lu Ling-ti, Stephen A. Spongberg "Dichotomanthes". in Flora of China Vol. 9 Page 85. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  2. Ku Tsue-chih, Stephen A. Spongberg "Pyrus". in Flora of China Vol. 9 Page 173. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

Sources

[ Back to top ]
Last Revised: August 26, 2014
2014/08/26 10:11:52