Prunus elaeagrifolia
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rosaceae |
| Genus: | Prunus |
| Species: | P. elaeagrifolia
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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.[2] 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.[3][4]
Taxonomy[edit]
The species was first described by Édouard Spach in 1843 as Amygdalus elaeagrifolia.[5] Spach repeated this spelling of the epithet in Jaubert's Illustrationes plantarum orientalium, which he helped to edit.[citation needed] The epithet appears to be derived from elaeagros, the wild olive, and thus means 'wild olive-leaved'.[6] Subsequent writers seem to have thought he had made a typographic error, and so wrongly "corrected" the epithet to elaeagnifolia,[5][6] meaning 'with leaves like Elaeagnus'.
In 1892, Karl Fritsch transferred the species from Amygdalus to Prunus, spelling the epithet as "elaeagnifolia" rather than Spach's elaeagrifolia.[7] As of October 2021[update], some sources have followed Fritsch, calling the species Prunus "elaeagnifolia" rather than Prunus elaeagrifolia,[8] whereas the International Plant Names Index supported the use of elaeagrifolia.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e "Prunus elaeagrifolia (Spach) Fritsch". The International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
- ^ Yazbek, Mariana Mostafa (February 2010). Systematics of Prunus Subgenus Amygdalus: Monograph and Phylogeny (PDF) (PhD). Cornell University. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Taxonomy browser (Prunus elaeagrifolia)".
- ^ a b "Amygdalus elaeagrifolia Spach", The International Plant Names Index, retrieved 2021-10-14
- ^ a b "Taxon: Amygdalus elaeagrifolia Spach", Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy), National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, retrieved 2021-10-14
- ^ Fritsch, Karl (1892), "Über einige südwestasiatische Prunus-Arten des Weiner botanischen Gartens", Sitzungsberichte der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 101 (1): 634, retrieved 2021-10-14
- ^ "Prunus elaeagnifolia (Spach) Fritsch". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
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