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Common Names
Common Names in English:
Fernald Serviceberry, Fernald's Serviceberry
Description
Genus Amelanchier
Shrubs
or trees
, deciduous; buds conspicuous
, narrowly conical
, with several scales
. Leaves simple
, petiolate
, stipulate
, venation
camptodromous
, margin
entire or serrate. Racemes
terminal
; bracts caducous
. Hypanthium campanulate
. Sepals 5, margin entire. Petals 5, white, oblong
or lanceolate, slender. Stamens 10-20. Ovary inferior or semi-inferior, 2-5-loculed, with 2 ovules per locule, separated by a false partition from back of locule; styles 2-5, partly connate
or free
. Fruit a small berrylike pome, bluish black to dark purple, usually juicy and sweet, incompletely 4-10-loculed, with one seed in each locule, crowned by persistent
, usually recurved sepals.
About 25 species: Asia, Europe, North America; two species (one endemic) in China.[1]
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
)
- Plants
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
()
- Flowering Plants
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Dicotyledons
- Order:
Rosales
()
- Family:
Pyraloidea
()
- Subfamily:
Maloideae
()
- Tribe:
Ajugeae
()
- Genus:
Amelanchier
()
- Medikus, Philos. Bot. 1: 155. 1789.
- Serviceberry
- Specific epithet:
fernaldii
- Wiegand
- Botanical name: - Amelanchier fernaldii Wiegand
- Specific epithet:
fernaldii
- Wiegand
- Genus:
Amelanchier
(
- Tribe:
Ajugeae
(
- Subfamily:
Maloideae
(
- Family:
Pyraloidea
(
- Order:
Rosales
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
(
Notes
Name Status: Provisionally Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: –
Similar Species
Members of the genus Amelanchier
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 253 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
A. acuminulata · A. alabamensis · A. alabamensis var. alabamensis · A. alnifolia (Rocky Mountain Blueberry) · A. alnifolia f. alba · A. alnifolia 'Forestburg' · A. alnifolia forma alba · A. alnifolia 'Martin' · A. alnifolia 'Northline' · A. alnifolia 'Obelisk' · A. alnifolia pallida · A. alnifolia pink-fruited · A. alnifolia pumila · A. alnifolia 'Regent' (Serviceberry) · A. alnifolia siskiyouensis · A. alnifolia 'Smokey' (Serviceberry) · A. alnifolia subintegra · A. alnifolia subsp. pallida · A. alnifolia subsp. siskiyouensis · A. alnifolia subsp. subintegra · A. alnifolia subsp. utahensis · A. alnifolia utahensis · A. alnifolia var. alnifolia (Saskatoon Service-Berry) · A. alnifolia var. compacta (Saskatoon Serviceberry) · A. alnifolia var. cuyamacensis (Saskatoon Serviceberry) · A. alnifolia var. dakotensis (Saskatoon Serviceberry) · A. alnifolia var. florida (Saskatoon Serviceberry) · A. alnifolia var. humptulipensis (Saskatoon Serviceberry) · A. alnifolia var. pumila · A. alnifolia var. semi-integrifolia · A. alnifolia var. semiintegrifolia (Saskatoon Serviceberry) · A. alnifolia var. siskiyouensis (Saskatoon Serviceberry) · A. alnifolia var. subintegra (Saskatoon Serviceberry) · A. amabilis · A. amelanchier · A. apiculata · A. arborea (Robin Hill Serviceberry) · A. arborea 'Cumulus' (Cumulus Serviceberry) · A. arborea f. nuda · A. arborea forma nuda · A. arborea grandiflora · A. arborea subsp. grandiflora · A. arborea var. alabamensis (Downy Serviceberry) · A. arborea var. arborea · A. arborea var. austromontana (Downy Serviceberry) · A. arguta · A. asiatica · A. asiatica sinica · A. asiatica var. turkestanica · A. aunieri · A. australis · A. austro-montana · A. austromontana · A. bakeri · A. bartramiana (Oblongfruit Serviceberry) · A. bartramiana 'Eskimo' · A. basalticola · A. beata · A. beugesiaca · A. botryapium · A. botryapium var. conferta · A. botryapium var. obovalis · A. canadensis (Oblong-Leaf Serviceberry) · A. canadensis confusa · A. canadensis'Glenform' (Glenform Rainbow Pillar Serviceberry) · A. canadensis 'Glennform' · A. canadensis 'Glenn Form' (Shadblow Service Berry) · A. canadensis 'Globe' · A. canadensis obovalis · A. canadensis 'Prince William' · A. canadensis spicata · A. canadensis 'Sprizam' (Shadblow Serviceberry) · A. canadensis subsp. confusa · A. canadensis subsp. obovalis · A. canadensis subsp. spicata · A. canadensis 'Trazam' · A. canadensis var. alnifolia (Thicket Serviceberry) · A. canadensis var. fernaldii (Thicket Serviceberry) · A. canadensis var. laevis (Thicket Serviceberry) · A. canadensis var. obovalis · A. canadensis var. ovalis · A. canadensis var. pumila · A. canadensis var. scharnkeana · A. canadensis var. semiintegrifolia (Thicket Serviceberry) · A. canadensis var. stolonifera (Thicket Serviceberry) · A. canadensis 'Micropetala' · A. chelmea · A. chinensis · A. confusa · A. couleeana · A. covea · A. covillei · A. crenata · A. crenulata · A. cretica · A. cuneata · A. cusickii (Cusick's Serviceberry) · A. denticulata · A. deweyensis · A. diversifolia
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Further Reading
- Yü Te-tsun, Lu Ling-ti, Ku Tsue-chih, Li Chao-luan, Kuan Ke-chien & Chiang Wan-fu. 1974, 1985, 1986. Rosaceae. In: Yü Te-tsun, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 36: 1443; 37: 1516; 38: 1133.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2007. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed September 17, 2007.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 30, 2008:
- Canadian Museum of Nature, Canadian Museum of Nature Herbarium
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2663329
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: IOP-586037
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 182044
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 721201-1
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDROS05060
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 167289
Footnotes
- Ku Tsue-chih, Stephen A. Spongberg "Amelanchier". in Flora of China Vol. 9 Page 190. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
