Cotoneaster harrysmithii

Description

Shrubs deciduous, 1-2 m tall. Branchlets sometimes nodding, reddish brown when old, terete, initially grayish yellow strigose-villous, glabrous when old. Petiole 2-3 mm, strigose-villous; stipules subulate, 2-5 mm, pilose; leaf blade elliptic to ovate-elliptic, (0.7-)1.5-2 cm - 4-11 mm, lateral veins 3 or 4 pairs, slightly raised abaxially, both surfaces appressed strigose-villous, more densely so abaxially, glabrescent, base cuneate or somewhat rounded, apex acute to acuminate. Corymbs (2 or)3 (or 4)-flowered; rachis and pedicels villous; bracts subulate, sparsely villous. Pedicel 1-3 mm. Flowers 4-5 mm in diam. Hypanthium campanulate, abaxially villous. Sepals triangular, apex acute. Petals erect, pink or brownish red with white margin, suborbicular, 2-3 - 1.5-2 mm, base cuneate, apex incurved. Stamens (10-)12(-14), 1.5-2 mm; filaments equal in length; anthers yellowish white or pink. Styles 2 or 3, free, 1-2 mm. Fruit brownish black or black, ovoid or subglobose, 6-7 - 4-5 mm, pyrenes 2 or 3. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Aug-Sep.