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Hedlundia
Sign in to saveHedlundia is a genus of plants in the rose family (of Rosaceae). They are shrubs or small trees that have a hybrid origin involving crosses between Aria and Sorbus sensu stricto. There are about 48 species distributed across central, western and southern Europe, Scandinavia, Turkey, the Caucasus, Crimea, and also central Asia. The term Hedlundia was published in 2017.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 74
- With media
- 65
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Collections
- DBG, O
- Recorded in
- United States, Norway
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- taxon name
- Hedlundia
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- Hedlundia
- taxon common name
- 花楸属
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Hedlundia is a genus of plants in the rose family (of Rosaceae). They are shrubs or small trees that have a hybrid origin involving crosses between Aria and Sorbus sensu stricto. There are about 48 species distributed across central, western and southern Europe, Scandinavia, Turkey, the Caucasus, Crimea, and also central Asia. The term Hedlundia was published in 2017.
==Description== Hedlundia species are small trees or shrubs, with simple leaves, pinnatilobate (having lobes arranged in a pinnate manner) or basally pinnate with 1–2(–3) leaflets. They are white- or greenish-grey-tomentose (covered with dense, matted, woolly hairs) beneath, with 7–15 pairs of lateral veins, with small to prominent, long, sub-acute to obtuse lobes with a variable number of teeth.
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