Alniaria Rushforth

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'Alniaria' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/alniaria/). Accessed 2025-01-20.

Family

Rosaceae

Species in genus

Glossary

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New article for Trees and Shrubs Online.

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'Alniaria' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/alniaria/). Accessed 2025-01-20.

Alniaria chengii KR 10318, an introduction from Jiangxi, from a tree at Lower Hills, UK (19 September 2023). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Editorial Note

We have published this stub genus article as part of a wider reorganisation of Sorbus sensu lato articles. This work will enable a new revision of Sorbus sensu stricto to commence in 2023 and bring the nomenclature of this complex group of plants up to date in line with modern treatments.

TC, August 2023.

Differentiated from related genera by the combination of: craspedodromus venation, fruit typically longer than broad with two carpels each with two co-lateral ovules set in a well-developed core. Styles joined at base. Calyx epigynous, usually deciduous. Seeds obovoid, rounded in transverse section, c. 6–7 × 3–4 mm. (Rushforth 2018).

Alniaria hunanica TH 1539, an introduction from Guangxi, from a plant at Lower Hills, UK (19 September 2023). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

At the Arnold Arboretum, Alniaria yuana has flourished and grown into shapely trees since its introduction by the SABE team in 1980. Image R. Lancaster.

Alniaria alnifolia BECX 6 collected on Jeju-do, South Korea in 1982, smothered in white blossom at Yorkshire Arboretum (27 May 2023). Image Jack Aldridge.

Autumn colour on Alniaria folgneri in a front garden in Burbage, Wiltshire, UK; 2nd November 2009. The orange upper leaf contrasts with the brilliant silver of the undersurface. Image Owen Johnson.

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