Rosaceae
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Sue Carnahan
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JANAS 33(1)
LEAVES: alternate (except Coleogyne), stipulate, simple to compound or dissected. PLANT: Plants herbaceous or woody. INFLORESCENCE: usually more or less cymose. FLOWERS: perfect, actinomorphic, often bearing 5 bracteoles; hypanthium bearing sepals, petals, and stamens; sepals usually 5; petals usually 5, distinct, often showy; stamens usually 10 many in whorls of 5; receptacle sometimes enlarged; pistils 1 many, each of 1 5 carpels, the ovaries superior to inferior. FRUIT: an achene, follicle, drupe, pome, hip, aggregate or accessory. x = 7 9, 14 17. NOTES: Ca. 100 genera, ca. 3,000 spp., worldwide, concentrated in temperate and subtropical n. hemisphere. Many cultivated for fruits (Fragaria, Malus, Prunus, Pyrus, Rubus, etc.) and as ornamentals (Crataegus, Pyracantha, Rosa, Sorbus, Spiraea, etc.). REFERENCES: Brasher, Jeffrey W. 2001. Rosaceae. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 33(1).
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Adenostoma fasciculatum
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Agrimonia striata
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Amelanchier alnifolia
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Amelanchier pumila
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Amelanchier utahensis
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Argentina anserina
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Cercocarpus intricatus
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Cercocarpus ledifolius
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Cercocarpus montanus
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Chamaebatiaria millefolium
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Chamaerhodos erecta
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Coleogyne ramosissima
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Comarum palustre
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Cotoneaster horizontalis
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Crataegus rivularis
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Dasiphora fruticosa
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Dryas octopetala
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Drymocallis arguta
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Drymocallis arizonica
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Drymocallis glandulosa
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Fallugia paradoxa
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Fragaria vesca
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Fragaria virginiana
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Geum aleppicum
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Geum macrophyllum
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Geum rossii
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Geum triflorum
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Geum urbanum
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Holodiscus dumosus
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Horkelia fusca
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Horkelia hispidula
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Horkeliella congdonis
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Ivesia aperta
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Ivesia arizonica
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Ivesia baileyi
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Ivesia gordonii
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Ivesia kingii
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Ivesia lycopodioides
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Ivesia pityocharis
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Ivesia rhypara
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Ivesia sabulosa
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Ivesia saxosa
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Ivesia setosa
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Ivesia shockleyi
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Ivesia utahensis
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Ivesia webberi
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Malus pumila
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Malus sylvestris
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Peraphyllum ramosissimum
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Petrophyton caespitosum
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