Vasilis Teodoridis:
Rosaceae | Photinia
36. Photinia schneideriana Rehder & E. H. Wilson in Sargent; Pl. Wilson. 1: 188. 1912.
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Shrubs or small trees; deciduous; to 7 m tall. Branchlets purplish brown when young; grayish brown when old; initially sparsely villous; subglabrous when old; with prominent brownish fusiform lenticels; buds broadly ovoid; 2–4 mm; apex acute; scales dark brown; glabrous or margin puberulous. Petiole 6–10 mm; initially villous; glabrescent; leaf blade oblong or oblong-elliptic to oblong-lanceolate; 6–11 x 2–5.5 cm; veins 10–15 pairs; slightly raised abaxially; abaxially yellowish gray tomentose; adaxially initially sparsely villous; glabrescent; base broadly cuneate; margin sharply serrate; apex acuminate. Compound corymbs terminal; (3–)5–8 x 5–11 cm; many flowered; rachis and pedicels glabrous or sparsely villous; glabrescent; with brownish lenticels in fruit; bracts linear or lanceolate; 2–4 mm; puberulous. Pedicel 3–8 mm. Hypanthium cupular; 3–4 mm; abaxially sparsely villous; later subglabrous or glabrous. Sepals spreading; suborbicular; 1–1.5 mm; apex abruptly pointed. Petals white; suborbicular; 4–5 mm in diam.; glabrous or adaxially villous at base; base shortly clawed; apex obtuse. Stamens 20; nearly as long as petals. Ovary pilose apically; styles 2 or 3; not exceeding stamens; basally connate. Fruit reddish; obovoid or obovoid-ellipsoid; 7–10 x 6–8 mm; glabrous; minutely lenticellate; seeds blackish brown; ovoid; 5–6 mm; apex acute. Fl. Apr–May; fr. Sep–Oct.
Forests; river valleys; near water courses; fields; 400--1600 m. Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangxi; Sichuan; Taiwan; Zhejiang.