Pleiosorbus
Credits
New article for Trees and Shrubs Online.
Recommended citation
'Pleiosorbus' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Family
- Rosaceae
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. We will revise this genus in full when funding becomes available; if you would like to support TSO by sponsoring this genus please contact the editors.
TC, September 2023.
Two species distributed in the eastern Himalayas and northern Myanmar. Flowers in large leafless corymbose panicles which are terminal on leafless shoots in autumn, stamens (25–)30–50, styles and carpels 3–5(–7) ovary fully adnate to hypanthium, ovules 2(–4?), superposed. Fruit 2.5–5 cm, conspicuously densely lenticellate, ripening in 12 months, calyx deciduous or incurved (Rushforth 2018; Lu & Spongberg 2003).
