Holodiscus
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| Holodiscus discolor foliage and flower buds | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rosaceae |
| Subfamily: | Amygdaloideae |
| Tribe: | Spiraeeae |
| Genus: | Holodiscus (K.Koch) Maxim. |
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Sericotheca | |
Holodiscus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae, native to the Americas, from southwestern British Columbia, Canada and the western United States south to Bolivia.[1]
The species are deciduous shrubs, growing to 1–7 metres (3.3–23.0 ft) tall.
Species[]
Seven to ten species are accepted by different authors, including:
- western US (New Mexico; included in H. discolor by USDA)
- Mexico
- Holodiscus discolor (syn. H. boursieri) coastal western North America
- Holodiscus dumosus interior western North America
- Central America
- Holodiscus microphyllus western US (Nevada, Utah; included in H. discolor by USDA)
- Colombia
- southern Mexico
- Bolivia
- western US (California; accepted by New York Botanical Gardens herbarium but not by USDA)
Taxonomy[]
The position of the genus Holodiscus in the family Rosaceae has changed over the last century as more detailed studies have been carried out. It has been place in subfamily Maloideae, but recent molecular evidence places all of (the former) subfamily Maloideae inside the subfamily Amygdaloideae.[2]
References[]
- ^ USDA Germplasm Resources−GRIN: Holodiscus
- ^ D. Potter, T. Eriksson, R. C. Evans, S. Oh, J. E. E. Smedmark, D. R. Morgan, M. Kerr, K. R. Robertson, M. Arsenault, T. A. Dickinson, C. S. Campbell (2007), "Phylogeny and classification of Rosaceae", Plant Systematics and Evolution, 266 (1–2): 5–43, doi:10.1007/s00606-007-0539-9CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link) [Referring to the subfamily by the name "Spiraeoideae"]
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Categories:
- Holodiscus
- Spiraeeae
- Rosaceae genera
- Flora of Mexico
- Flora of the Western United States
- Flora of Western Canada
- Flora of Central America
- Flora of South America