火棘

Pyracantha fortuneana (Maxim.) H. L. Li

蔷薇科 Rosaceae

火棘属 Pyracantha

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形态描述

常绿灌木,高可达3m。侧枝短,先端成刺状,嫩枝被锈色短柔毛,老枝无毛。单叶互生,叶片倒卵形至倒卵状长圆形,长1.5-6cm,宽0.5-2cm,先端圆钝或微凹,有时具短尖头,基部楔形,下延至叶柄,两面皆无毛,叶缘有钝锯齿,近基部全缘;叶柄短。复伞房花序,径3-4,花梗和总花梗近于无毛。花白色,径约1cm;萼筒钟状,无毛,萼片5,三角卵形;花瓣白色,近圆形,长约4mm;雄蕊20,药黄色;花柱5,离生,子房上部密生白色柔毛。果为梨果,近球形,径约5mm,成熟时桔红色或深红色。花期3-5月,果期8-11月。

分布地区

常见栽培种。分布于陕西、河南、江苏、福建、湖北、湖南、广西、贵州、云南、四川、西藏。

主要用途

可用于园林绿化,常作绿篱。

中国植物志英文版

Photinia fortuneana Maximowicz, Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg, sér. 3, 19: 179. 1874; P. crenatoserrata Hance; Pyracantha crenatoserrata (Hance) Rehder (1931); P. crenulata var. yunnanensis M. Vilmorin ex Mottet (1913); P. gibbsii var. yunnanensis (M. Vilmorin ex Mottet) A. Osborn (1919); P. yunnanensis (M. Vilmorin ex Mottet) Chittenden (1921). Shrubs to 3 m tall. Lateral branches short, thornlike; young branchlets rusty pubescent, dark brown and glabrescent when old. Petiole glabrous or initially slightly pubescent; stipules not seen; leaf blade obovate or obovate-oblong, 1.5–6 × 0.5–2 cm, both surfaces glabrous, base cuneate, margin serrate with teeth incurved, apex obtuse or emarginate, sometimes shortly apiculate. Compound corymb rather loose, 3–4 cm in diam.; peduncle subglabrous; bracts caducous, lanceolate. Pedicel ca. 1 cm, subglabrous. Flowers ca. 1 cm in diam. Hypanthium campanulate, abaxially glabrous. Sepals triangular, 1–1.5 mm, glabrous, margin entire, apex obtuse. Petals suborbicular, ca. 4 × 3 mm, apex rounded or obtuse. Stamens 20; filaments 3–4 mm. Ovary densely white pubescent apically; styles ca. as long as stamens. Pome orangish red or dark red, subglobose, ca. 5 mm; fruiting pedicel 2–5 mm; sepals persistent, erect. Fl. Mar–May, fr. Aug–Nov. 2n = 34*. Thickets, stream sides, roadsides; 500--2800 m. Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang.----from “Flora of China”