Prunus elaeagrifolia

Prunus elaeagrifolia (Persian: ارژن‎) is a species of wild almond native to Iran. It is shrub or small tree 3-4 m tall, with the gray bark of its older twigs peeling in places and showing a brownish-yellow underbark. Its leaves are densely pubescent, with the pubescence yellowish gray.[3] It is mostly found in the southern portion of the Zagros Mountains, where in places it is one of the dominant tree species. Its 2n=16 chromosomes have karyotypic formula 7m+t.[4][5]

Prunus elaeagrifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Rosids
Order:
Rosales
Family:
Rosaceae
Genus:
Prunus
Subgenus:
Amygdalus
Species:
P. elaeagrifolia
Binomial name
Prunus elaeagrifolia
(Spach) A.E.Murray[1]
Synonyms
  • Amygdalus elaeagrifolia Spach[2][lower-alpha 1]
  • Prunus elaeagnifolia (Spach) A.E.Murray
  • Amygdalus elaeagnifolia subsp. leiocarpa (Boiss.) Browicz
  • Amygdalus elaeagnifolia var. pubescens Browicz
  • Amygdalus leiocarpa Boiss.
  • Prunus elaeagnifolia (Spach) Fritsch
  • Prunus leiocarpa (Boiss.) Fritsch
  • Prunus leiocarpa (Boiss.) Schneider

Notes
  1. Spach published it as Amygdalus elaeagrifolia in his 1843 monograph, and repeated that spelling in Jaubert's Illustrationes plantarum orientalium, which he helped edit. He seems to have meant elaeagrifolia, "wild olive-leaved"; from elaea, "olive tree"; agrios, "wild". It appears that subsequent writers thought he had made a typographic error and "corrected" the epithet to elaeagnifolia, meaning "pure olive-leaved"; from agnos, "pure".

References
  1. Kalmia 1(7):30. 1969 "elaeagnifolia"
  2. Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 2, 19: 120. 1843
  3. Yazbek, Mariana Mostafa (February 2010). Systematics of Prunus Subgenus Amygdalus: Monograph and Phylogeny (PDF) (PhD). Cornell University. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  4. Kazem, Yousefzadeh; Houshmand, Saadallah; Madani, Babak; Martínez-Gómez, Pedro (April 2010). "Karyotypic studies in Iranian wild almond species". Caryologia. 63 (2): 117–123. doi:10.1080/00087114.2010.10589716. S2CID 55412902.
  5. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=1284231


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