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Annual to tree, glandular or not.
Leaf: simple to palmately or pinnately compound, generally alternate; stipules free to fused (0), persistent to deciduous.
Inflorescence: cyme, raceme, panicle, cluster, or flowers 1; bractlets on pedicel (" pedicel bractlets") generally 0–3(many), subtended by bract or generally not.
Flower: generally bisexual, radial; hypanthium free or fused to ovary, saucer- to funnel-shaped, subtending bractlets (" hypanthium bractlets") 0–5, alternate sepals; sepals generally 5; petals generally 5, free; stamens (0,1)5–many, anther pollen sacs generally 2; pistils (0)1–many, simple or compound, ovary superior to inferior, styles 1–5.
Fruit: 1–many per flower, achene ( fleshy-coated or not), follicle, drupe, or pome with generally papery core, occasionally drupe-like with 1–5 stones.
Seed: generally 1–5 (per fruit, not per flower).
110 genera, ± 3000 species: worldwide, especially temperate; many cultivated for ornamental, fruit, especially Cotoneaster, Fragaria, Malus, Prunus, Pyracantha, Rosa, Rubus. [Potter et al. 2007 Plant Syst Evol 266:5–43] Number of teeth is per leaf or leaflet, not per side of leaf or leaflet, except in Drymocallis. —Scientific Editors: Daniel Potter, Thomas J. Rosatti.
Unabridged references: [Robertson 1974 J Arnold Arbor 55:303–332, 344–401, 611–662]

Key to Rosaceae

Shrub, tree.
Leaf: simple, alternate or clustered on short- shoots, entire to serrate, generally glabrous, generally glandular on teeth and at blade-petiole junction, veins pinnate; stipules deciduous.
Inflorescence: raceme, cluster, or flowers 1; pedicel bractlets 0.
Flower: hypanthium cup- to urn-shaped, deciduous in fruit, bractlets 0; sepals erect to reflexed; stamens generally 10–30, generally in 2+ whorls; pistil 1, ovary superior, chamber 1, ovules 2, style 1, stigma ± spheric or disk-like.
Fruit: drupe, generally ovoid to spheric.
200+ species: worldwide, especially n temperate. (Greek: plum, prune) Seeds of many species ± TOXIC from production of hydrocyanic acid. Many cultivated for wood, ornamental, edible fruit; some persisting near human habitations, some possibly naturalized (e.g., Prunus laurocerasus L.).
Unabridged note: Many cult for wood, ornamental, edible fruit; some persisting near human habitation (Prunus armeniaca L., apricot; Prunus avium (L.) L., sweet cherry; Prunus caroliniana (Mill.) Aiton; Prunus cerasus L., sour cherry; Prunus domestica L., plum; Prunus laurocerasus L., laurel cherry; Prunus lusitanica L., Portugal laurel; Prunus mahaleb L.; Prunus munsoniana W. Wight & Hedrick; Prunus speciosa (Koidz.) Nakai; Prunus yedoensis Matsum.).

Shrub < 3 m, much-branched, thorny.
Leaf: deciduous; petiole ± 0; blade 5–20 mm, 1–2(4) mm wide, linear to narrow-oblanceolate, generally entire, base long- tapered, tip acute to rounded.
Inflorescence: subsessile cluster, flowers 1–2; pedicels 0–4 mm.
Flower: generally unisexual by abortion of stamens or pistil; sepals glabrous, entire; petals 1.4–4 mm, white to ± yellow.
Fruit: 7–15 mm, densely puberulent, gray to red-brown; pulp dry, thin. [Online Interchange]

Leaf: glabrous to low- papillate.
Sandy soils, scrubland, oak woodland; < 200 m. s Central Coast, s Outer South Coast Ranges.

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