Pyracantha angustifolia
Content
Description
Shrubs, c. 3 m high.
Leaves on short shoots, oblong, 1-3.5 by 0.5-1 cm, base acute to rounded, margin entire, apex rounded, often retuse, mucro-nate, nerves and veins reticulate, hardly visible, coriaceous, when mature glabrous except remnants of indumentum near midrib above.
Flowers in short racemes at apex of short shoots, pedicels hairy, up to 8 mm long.
Sepals triangular, 1 by 2 mm.
Petals orbicular, 3 by 3 mm, spreading in anthesis, white.
Stamens c. 20, filaments up to 2 mm, glabrous, anthers 0.5 mm long.
Ovaries connate with hypanthium over half their length, hairy on top and dorsally, styles 2 mm, glabrous.
Fruits depressed globular, 3 by 5 mm, exocarp glabrous, orange (to red?), mesocarp thin-fleshy, 5 pyrenes remaining free from each other, their upper parts exposed, endocarps woody.
Seeds 2 per cell, flat
Distribution
Asia-Temperate: China South-Central (Yunnan present), Europe cultivated, N America cultivated, along the Baguio-Bontoc Road, Benguet, Mountain Prov., Luzon present
Originating from Yunnan, China, planted as an ornamental in Europe and N America. Three herbarium specimens seen, collected (in 1953 and 1958) from planted bush(es) along the Baguio-Bontoc Road, Benguet, Mountain Prov., Luzon.