Talk:Pyracantha

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I have not edited W'pedia pages for several years so I am posting here in the hope that an editor will read this and make changes accordingly re the fruit type found in Pyracantha. Pyracantha fruits are NOT pomes, but rather are polypyrenous drupes, much like those of hawthorns (Crataegus). Some references for this assertion follow.

Kalkman, C. (2004). Rosaceae In K. Kubitzki (ed.) Flowering plants - Dicotyledons: Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales (The families and genera of vascular plants, 343-386). Berlin: Springer. [pp. 354, 380]

Robertson, K.R., Phipps, J.B., Rohrer, J.R. and Smith, P.G. (1991). A synopsis of genera in Maloideae (Rosaceae). SYSTEMATIC BOTANY 16, 376-394. pp. 386, 391

Ufimov, R.A. and Dickinson, T.A. (2020). Infrageneric nomenclature adjustments in Crataegus L. (Maleae, Rosaceae). Phytologia 102, 177-199. p. 181 and Fig. 1

Mispelmist (talk) 15:25, 8 July 2024 (UTC)