Contains 2 accepted taxa overall.

Characteristics

Pyracantha M.Roem.
FIRETHORN

Classification

ROSALES
Pyracantha

Citation

PYRACANTHA M. Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. Monogr. 3: 104, 218. 1847.
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TYPE: Pyracantha coccinea M. Roemer (Mespilus pyracantha Linnaeus) Lectotypified by Rehder, Bibliogr. Cult. Trees 239. 1949.

Species

Scientific Name Common Name Herbarium Specimens Status Photos
Pyracantha fortuneana CHINESE FIRETHORN Not Native
Pyracantha koidzumii FORMOSA FIRETHORN Not Native

[Family identification key]

1.  Leaf blade margins on most or all leaves conspicuously toothed along most of the margin (below the middle to the distal end), apices mostly acute or obtuse to rounded or truncate, rarely retuse
1.  Leaf blade margins mostly entire, sometimes with a few teeth near the distal end, apices rounded to truncate, usually retuse

Genus Synonyms

Synonym Full Citation Basionym Type
Sportella Sportella Hance, J. Bot. 15: 207. 1877. TYPE: Sportella atalantioides Hance
Timbalia Timbalia Clos, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 18: 177. 1871. TYPE: Timbalia pyracantha (Linnaeus) Clos (Mespilus pyracantha Linnaeus) = Pyracantha M. Roemer 1847, by lectotypification.