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52. PADUS Miller, Gard. Dict. Abr, ed. 4. [999]. 1754.
稠李属 chou li shu
Gu Cuizhi (Ku Tsue-chih); Bruce Bartholomew
Trees or shrubs, deciduous, many branched. Branches unarmed. Axillary winter buds ovoid; terminal bud present. Stipules membranous, soon caducous. Leaves simple, alternate, conduplicate when young; petiole usually with 2 nectaries at apex or at base of leaf blade margin; leaf blade margin serrate, rarely entire. Inflorescences terminal on current year’s branchlet, racemose, many-flowered, base with a soon caducous involucre formed by floral bud scales; peduncle usually with leaves. Hypanthium campanulate to cup-shaped. Sepals 5. Petals 5, white. Stamens 10 or more, inserted on rim of hypanthium. Ovary superior, 1-loculed; ovules 2, collateral, pendulous. Style terminal, elongated; stigma flat. Fruit a drupe, glabrous, not glaucous, without a longitudinal groove; mesocarp succulent, not splitting when ripe; endocarp bony.
About 20 species: mostly in N temperate regions; 15 species (nine endemic) in China.
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Racemes basally leafless; sepals persistent in fruit. |
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Racemes basally leafy (usually leafless in P. maackii and P. laxiflora); sepals soon caducous in fruit. |
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Branchlets and abaxial surface of leaf blades glabrous; peduncle subglabrous to sparsely pubescent. |
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1 P. buergeriana |
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Branchlets pubescent and leaf blades pubescent at least on veins; peduncle densely pubescent. |
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Leaf blade margin acutely serrate; inflorescence base without squamose involucral bracts. |
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2 P. stellipila |
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Leaf blade margin serrulate; inflorescence base with persistent squamose involucral bracts. |
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3 P. perulata |
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Inflorescence base leafless or sometimes with 1 or 2 small bracts near base; leaves abaxially glandular. |
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Inflorescences base leafy; leaf blade abaxially non-glandular. |
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Leaf blade abaxially glandular, midvein pubescent. |
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4 P. maackii |
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Leaf blade not glandular, midvein sericeous-villous. |
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5 P. laxiflora |
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Peduncles and pedicels thickened, conspicuously lenticellate in fruit. |
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Peduncles and pedicels not thickened and not lenticellate in fruit. |
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Branchlets and abaxial surface of leaf blades glabrous or very rarely sparsely pubescent when young. |
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14 P. napaulensis |
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Branchlets and abaxial surface of leaf blades pubescent. |
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15 P. wilsonii |
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Style exserted. |
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6 P. grayana |
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Style not exserted (not seen in P. brunnescens or P. integrifolia). |
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Style 1/2 as long as stamens; pedicel 1–1.5(–2.4) cm. |
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7 P. avium |
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Style nearly as long as stamens (not seen in P. brunnescens or P. integrifolia); pedicel shorter than 1 cm. |
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Leaf blade margin serrulate. |
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13 P. cornuta |
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Leaf blade margin entire, crenulate, or serrate. |
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Leaf blade margin aristate serrate; inflorescences 16–30 cm. |
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Leaf blade margin not aristate serrate; inflorescences 8–15 cm. |
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Leaf blade elliptic to ovate-oblong, abaxially brown pubescent; peduncles and pedicels brown pubescent. |
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8 P. brunnescens |
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Leaf blade oblong to rarely elliptic or lanceolate, glabrous; peduncles and pedicels not brown pubescent. |
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9 P. brachypoda |
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Leaf blade margin entire or very rarely apically sparsely serrate. |
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12 P. integrifolia |
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Leaf blade margin crenulate or appressed serrate. |
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Leaf blade abaxially glabrous; branchlets glabrous or pubescent; peduncles and pedicels pubescent. |
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10 P. obtusata |
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Leaf blade abaxially velutinous; branchlets velutinous; peduncles and pedicels velutinous. |
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11 P. velutina |
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