Prunus sect. Microcerasus

Short description: Group of trees

Prunus sect. Microcerasus

Prunus prostrata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Rosids
Order:  | Rosales
Family:  | Rosaceae
Genus:  | Prunus
Subgenus:  | Prunus subg. Prunus
Section:  | Prunus sect. Microcerasus
(Webb & Berthel.) C.K.Schneid.
Type species
Prunus prostrata Labill.

Species

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Prunus sect. Microcerasus[1] is a section of Prunus. It used to be included in Prunus subg. Cerasus, but phylogenetic research indicates it belongs to Prunus subg. Prunus.[2] It differs from Prunus subg. Cerasus by having three winter buds per axil.

## Species

Species in this section are often called bush cherries or dwarf cherries.[2] They include:[3]

* Prunus alaica
* Prunus albicaulis
* Prunus bifrons
* Prunus brachypetala
* Prunus chorossanica
* Prunus dictyoneura
* Prunus erythrocarpa
* Prunus erzincanica[4]
* Prunus glandulosa
* Prunus griffithii
* Prunus hippophaeoides
* Prunus humilis
* Prunus incana
* Prunus jacquemontii
* Prunus japonica
* Prunus microcarpa
* Prunus pogonostyla
* Prunus pojarkovii
* Prunus prostrata
* Prunus pseudoprostrata
* Prunus pumila
* Prunus pumila var. besseyi[5][6]
* Prunus pumila var. depressa
* Prunus susquehanae
* Prunus tianshanica
* Prunus tomentosa
* Prunus verrucosa
* Prunus yazdiana[7]

Hybrids:

* Prunus × cistena

## References

1. ↑ Schneider, Camillo Karl (1904). Illustriertes Handbuch der Laubholzkunde. 1. Jena: Gustav Fischer. pp. 601. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/5886#page/624/mode/1up.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Shi, Shuo; Li, Jinlu; Sun, Jiahui; Yu, Jing; Zhou, Shiliang (2013). "Phylogeny and Classification of Prunus sensu lato (Rosaceae)" (in en). Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 55 (11): 1069–1079. doi:10.1111/jipb.12095. ISSN 1744-7909. PMID 23945216. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jipb.12095.
3. ↑ Пояркова, А. И. (1939). "Критический обзор среднеазиатских и переднеазиатских видов вишни цикла Cerasi prostratae (Labill.) Ser.". Ботанический журнал (3): 225–246.
4. ↑ Yıldırımlı, Ş (1993). "Cerasus erzincanica (Rosaceae), a new species from Turkey". Candollea 48 (1): 115–118. https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=can-002:1993:48::4#176.
5. ↑ Yazbek, M.; Oh, S.-H. (2013-10-01). "Peaches and almonds: phylogeny of Prunus subg. Amygdalus (Rosaceae) based on DNA sequences and morphology" (in en). Plant Systematics and Evolution 299 (8): 1403–1418. doi:10.1007/s00606-013-0802-1. ISSN 1615-6110. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-013-0802-1.
6. ↑ Bortiri, Esteban; Oh, Sang-Hun; Jiang, Jianguo; Baggett, Scott; Granger, Andrew; Weeks, Clay; Buckingham, Megan; Potter, Daniel et al. (2001). "Phylogeny and systematics of Prunus (Rosaceae) as determined by sequence analysis of ITS and the chloroplast trnL-trnF spacer DNA". Systematic Botany 26 (4): 797–807. ISSN 0363-6445. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3093861.
7. ↑ Zamani, Z.; Shahi-Gharahlar, A.; Fatahi, R.; Khadivi-Khub, A. (2011). "A survey on Prunus species from subgenus Cerasus naturally growing in Iran". Acta Horticulturae (918): 731–734. doi:10.17660/actahortic.2011.918.94. ISSN 0567-7572. https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2011.918.94.

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