Pyracantha rogersiana
(A.B.Jacks.) Chitt.Spreading spiny shrub or small tree to c. 5 m high; young shoots white- or greyish-pubescent. Leaves simple, oblanceolate to obovate, mostly 2–4 cm long, 5–10 mm wide, base tapering, apex obtuse, emarginate, margins crenulate or crenate, more prominently towards the apex, both surfaces glabrous; petiole 3–10 mm long; stipules minute, early caducous. Flowers in corymbs on short lateral shoots; pedicle glabrous. Sepals glabrous; stamens persistent in fruit. Pome subglobose, 3–6 mm diam., glabrous, yellow or orange-red; pyrenes 4 or 5. Flowers spring–summer.
EGL. Also naturalised SA, Qld, NSW, ACT. A widely cultivated plant that has apparently become naturalised near the Mallacoota Inlet.
This species closely resembles the more widely naturalised Pyracantha crenulata. However, it can be distinguished from P. crenulata by the greyish or white hair on young growth, the often shorter, more prominently obovate leaves which are often only lobed in the distal half, and paler berries that are orangish or yellow. The boundary between P. rogersiana and P. crenatoserrata is also not clear. Pyracantha crenatoserrata is sometimes distinguished by the broader leaves (as followed here), while other flora treatments use indumentum on sepals and pedicles as a diagnostic character for P. crenatoserrata.
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