Cotoneaster tenuipes

(Cotoneaster tenuipes)

Description

Cotoneaster tenuipes (slender cotoneaster; xi zhi xun zi in Chinese) is an "extremely graceful," meter-high, hirsute, deciduous cotoneaster shrub endemic to the temperate regions of China. It was named and described by botanists Alfred Rehder and E.H.Wilson in 1912.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum:
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Rosales
Family:Rosaceae
Genus:Cotoneaster
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