Prunus sect. Microcerasus

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
See text

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. Vol. 1. Jena: Gustav Fischer. p. 601.
2. Shi, Shuo; Li, Jinlu; Sun, Jiahui; Yu, Jing; Zhou, Shiliang (2013). "Phylogeny and Classification of Prunus sensu lato (Rosaceae)" . Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 55 (11): 1069–1079. doi:10.1111/jipb.12095. ISSN   1744-7909. PMID   23945216.
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.
5. Yazbek, M.; Oh, S.-H. (2013-10-01). "Peaches and almonds: phylogeny of Prunus subg. Amygdalus (Rosaceae) based on DNA sequences and morphology" . Plant Systematics and Evolution. 299 (8): 1403–1418. doi:10.1007/s00606-013-0802-1. ISSN   1615-6110. S2CID   14542774.
6. Bortiri, Esteban; Oh, Sang-Hun; Jiang, Jianguo; Baggett, Scott; Granger, Andrew; Weeks, Clay; Buckingham, Megan; Potter, Daniel; Parfitt, Dan E. (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. JSTOR   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.