Hedlundia Sennikov & Kurtto

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New article for Trees and Shrubs Online.

Recommended citation
'Hedlundia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/hedlundia/). Accessed 2024-04-28.

Family

Rosaceae
Aria × Sorbus

Species in genus

Glossary

References

Sennikov, A.N. & Kurtto, A. (2017). A phylogenetic checklist of Sorbus s.l. (Rosaceae) in Europe

Credits

New article for Trees and Shrubs Online.

Recommended citation
'Hedlundia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/hedlundia/). Accessed 2024-04-28.

Hudlundia leyana at Winkworth Arboretum, Surrey, UK. 5 July 2023. Image Tom Christian.

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, September 2023.

A genus of hybrid origin involving crosses beyween Aria and Sorbus sensu stricto. 48 species distributed across central, western and southern Europe, Scandinavia, Turkey, the Caucasus, Crimea, and central Asia (Plants of the World Online 2023). Small trees or shrubs. Leaves simple, pinnatilobate, or basally pinnate with 1–2(–3) leaflets, white- or greenish-grey-tomentose beneath, with 7–15 pairs of lateral veins, with small to prominent, long, subacute to obtuse lobes with a variable number of teeth. Petals white. Styles 2–3. Fruit medium-sized, orange-red to crimson, with few to sparse small lenticels. (Sennikov & Kurtto 2017; Rushforth 2018).

Hedlundia commemorates Swedish botanist Johan Teodor Hedlund (1861–1953), a noted expert in Sorbus (Sennikov & Kurtto 2017).

A young Hedlundia arranensis at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (20061729*I) showing the characteristic upright habit. 15 August 2023. Image Tom Christian.

In the climate of southern England, Hedlundia hybrida is the most reliably showy in autumn fruit of its group. Spetchley Park, Worcestershire; 8th September 2023. Image Owen Johnson.

Hedlundia minima in flower at the Yorkshire Arboretum, UK, 27 May 2023. Image Jack Aldridge.

Hedlundia tamamschjanae , seen here in flower at Kew in May 2008, was introduced to Britain by the Armenian botanist Dr Eleonora Gabrieljan. Image J. Grimshaw.

Hedlundia thuringiaca going into autumn in a car park in York, UK: it deserves better! (October 2023) Image John Grimshaw.

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