Micromeles Decne.

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New article for Trees and Shrubs Online.

Recommended citation
'Micromeles' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/micromeles/). Accessed 2024-05-02.

Family

Rosaceae

Species in genus

Glossary

References

Rushforth, K. (2018). The whitebeam problem, and a solution

Credits

New article for Trees and Shrubs Online.

Recommended citation
'Micromeles' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/micromeles/). Accessed 2024-05-02.

Autumn foliage on Micromeles japonica at the Kobe Municipal Arboretum, Japan (23 October 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 small fruits (4–7 mm across) without lenticels, with two co-lateral ovules in the two carpels. Leaves generally craspedodromus except in M. cuspidata (camptodromus). (Rushforth 2018).

Fruiting branchlet with ripe pomes on Micromeles calocarpa, from a plant at Arboretum Hof ter Saksen, Belgium (7 November 2006). Image © Jan De Langhe.

Foliage on Micromeles rhamnoides, an introduction from Zhongdian, Yunnan; growing at Tregrehan, Cornwall, UK (5 September 2016). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Micromeles zahlbruckneri in fruit at Benmore Botanic Garden, Argyll, UK (19708210*A). September 2023. Image William Hinchliffe.

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