Sorbus tamamschjanae
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Article from New Trees by John Grimshaw & Ross Bayton
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'Sorbus tamamschjanae' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Sorbus alnifolia
- Sorbus americana
- Sorbus amoena
- Sorbus anglica
- Sorbus arachnoidea
- Sorbus aria
- Sorbus aucuparia
- Sorbus cachmiriana
- Sorbus caloneura
- Sorbus carmesina
- Sorbus chamaemespilus
- Sorbus commixta
- Sorbus coxii
- Sorbus cuspidata
- Sorbus decora
- Sorbus discolor
- Sorbus domestica
- Sorbus ellipsoidalis
- Sorbus epidendron
- Sorbus esserteauiana
- Sorbus fansipanensis
- Sorbus folgneri
- Sorbus foliolosa
- Sorbus forrestii
- Sorbus glabriuscula
- Sorbus glomerulata
- Sorbus gracilis
- Sorbus hajastana
- Sorbus helenae
- Sorbus × hostii
- Sorbus hupehensis
- Sorbus hybrida
- Sorbus hypoglauca
- Sorbus insignis
- Sorbus intermedia
- Sorbus japonica
- Sorbus 'Joseph Rock'
- Sorbus keissleri
- Sorbus khumbuensis
- Sorbus koehneana
- Sorbus kongboensis
- Sorbus kurzii
- Sorbus latifolia
- Sorbus lingshiensis
- Sorbus matsumurana
- Sorbus megalocarpa
- Sorbus meinichii
- Sorbus meliosmifolia
- Sorbus microphylla
- Sorbus minima
- Sorbus muliensis
- Sorbus olivacea
- Sorbus pallescens
- Sorbus parvifructa
- Sorbus pohuashanensis
- Sorbus poteriifolia
- Sorbus prattii
- Sorbus pseudohupehensis
- Sorbus pseudovilmorinii
- Sorbus randaiensis
- Sorbus reducta
- Sorbus rhamnoides
- Sorbus rinzenii
- Sorbus rubescens
- Sorbus rufopilosa
- Sorbus rushforthii
- Sorbus sambucifolia
- Sorbus sargentiana
- Sorbus scalaris
- Sorbus sitchensis
- Sorbus takhtajanii
- Sorbus thibetica
- Sorbus × thuringiaca
- Sorbus tianschanica
- Sorbus torminalis
- Sorbus umbellata
- Sorbus ursina
- Sorbus vilmorinii
- Sorbus wallichii
- Sorbus wilsoniana
Shrub or tree to 8 m. Buds ovate, 0.4–0.6 cm long. Leaves 2.5–9 cm long, ovate, upper surface dark green, lower surface greyish white-pubescent, margins deeply lobed to almost pinnate at the leaf base and on immature shoots, apex subobtuse. Inflorescence 4–11 cm diameter, with 25–60(–90) flowers. Flowers 1.5–1.8 cm diameter. Fruit orange, 1.2 cm diameter, no lenticels. Gabrieljan 1972. Distribution ARMENIA; TURKEY: eastern Anatolia. Habitat Open mixed forest or scrub, between 1500 and 2600 m asl. USDA Hardiness Zone 5–6. Conservation status Not evaluated. Illustration More & White 2003; NT814, NT818, NT825. Taxonomic note This species is almost certainly the Armenian equivalent of S. arranensis, probably the result of hybridisation between one of the local tetraploids of the Aria aggregate (S. hajastana, S. takhtajanii, or perhaps even S. subfusca) and Armenian S. aucuparia (H. McAllister, pers. comm. 2007).
The deeply lobed leaves of Sorbus tamamschjanae make it recognisable among the Armenian species (see p. 817), but it cannot be said to be particularly exciting.
