Prunus sect. Prunocerasus

Prunus sect. Prunocerasus
Prunus nigra
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Prunus
Subgenus: Prunus
Section: Prunus sect. Prunocerasus
Koehne
Species

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Prunus sect. Prunocerasus (meaning prune-cherry) is a section of the genus Prunus. Koehne originally described it as comprising the North American plums and placed it in the subgenus Cerasus.[1] The section is now generally recognized as belonging to Prunus subg. Prunus.[2]

Species attributed to this section include:

References

  1. Koehne, 1893 Deutsche dendrologie pp 302, 305, 310-313. Stuttgart: Verlag von Ferdinand Enke. 1893
  2. Shaw and Small "Chloroplast DNA phylogeny and phylogeography of the North American Plums (Prunus subgenus Prunus section Prunocerasus, Rosaceae)" Am. J. of Bot. 92(12): 2011-2030. 2005
  3. "GRIN Species Records of Prunus sect. Prunocerasus". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2013-01-31.

External links

Data related to Prunus sect. Prunocerasus at Wikispecies


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