Vasilis Teodoridis:
Rosaceae | Cerasus
12. Cerasus szechuanica (Batalin) T. T. Yu & C. L. Li; Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 38: 49. 1986.
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Prunus szechuanica Batalin; Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 14: 167. 1895.
Tree or shrubs; 3–7 m tall. Branchlets gray or reddish brown; glabrous or sparsely pilose. Winter buds oblong-ovoid; glabrous. Stipules green; ovate to broadly ovate; margin incised serrate; teeth with a capitate apical gland. Petiole 1–1.8 cm; glabrous or pilose; apically usually with 2 disciform to capitate nectaries; leaf blade ovate-elliptic; obovate-elliptic; or long elliptic; 5–9 x 2.5–4 cm; abaxially pale green and glabrous or pilose; adaxially green and usually glabrous or pilose along midvein; base broadly cuneate to rounded; margin biserrate or serrate and teeth with a minute disciform; capitate; or conical apical gland; apex caudate to cuspidate; secondary veins 7–9 on either side of midvein. Inflorescences subcorymbose-racemose; 4–9 cm; 2–5-flowered; involucral bracts brown; obovate-oblong; 10–15 x 5–6 mm; glabrous or nearly so; margin with capitate glands; rachis glabrous or pilose; bracts green; basally on rachis mostly sterile or only terminal 1–3 fertile; suborbicular; broadly ovate; or long ovate; 0.5–2.5 x 0.5–1.2 cm; margin with disciform glands; apex rounded. Pedicel 1–2 cm; glabrous or sparsely pilose. Hypanthium campanulate; ca. 5 x 4–5 mm; outside glabrous or pilose. Sepals triangular-lanceolate; slightly shorter than hypanthium; margin with capitate glands; apex acuminate. Petals white or pink; suborbicular; apex erose. Stamens 40–47. Style nearly as long as stamens; glabrous; stigma disciform. Drupe purplish red; ovoid; 8–10 x 7–8 mm; endocarp sculptured. Fl. Apr–Jun; fr. Jun–Aug.
Forests; forest margins; 1500--2600 m. Henan; Hubei; Hunan; Shaanxi; Sichuan.