Prunus phaeosticta

Prunus phaeosticta, the dark-spotted cherry, is a species of Prunus native to China, including Taiwan, and southeast Asia, including far eastern India, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. It goes by a number of different names in Chinese, including 黑星櫻, black star cherry, 墨點櫻桃 and 墨点樱桃, ink point cherry, and 腺葉桂櫻, gland leaf cherry. It gets its specific epithet and its common names from the small dark spots (glands) on the undersides of its leaves.[1] Formosan rock macaques (Macaca cyclopis) eat the fruit.[2][3]

Prunus phaeosticta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Rosids
Order:
Rosales
Family:
Rosaceae
Genus:
Prunus
Subgenus:
Cerasus
Section:
Laurocerasus
Species:
P. phaeosticta
Binomial name
Prunus phaeosticta
(Hance) Maxim
Synonyms
  • Cerasus punctata Hook.fil. & Thoms.
  • Laurocerasus phaeosticta (Hance) C.K.Schneid.
  • Lauro-cerasus phaeosticta (Hance) C.K.Schneid.
  • Prunus edentata Hand.-Mazz.
  • Prunus punctata Hook. f. & Thomson
  • Prunus xerocarpa Hemsl.
  • Pygeum phaeosticta Hance
  • Pygeum phaeostictum Hance

Subspecies and forms

A widespread species, it displays variety in its morphology, leading to a number of described putative subspecies, varieties and forms.

  • L. phaeosticta f. pubipedunculata T.T. Yu & L.T. Lu
  • P. phaeosticta f. ciliospinosa
  • P. phaeosticta f. dentigera Rehder
  • P. phaeosticta f. lasioclada Rehder
  • P. phaeosticta f. phaeosticta
  • P. phaeosticta f. puberula (Yü & Lu) Q.H.Chen
  • P. phaeosticta subsp. ilicifolia (Hance) Maxim.
  • P. phaeosticta. subsp. phaeosticta
  • P. phaeosticta var. ancylocarpa
  • P. phaeosticta var. dimorphophylla
  • P. phaeosticta var. promeccocarpa

References
  1. Chin, Siew-wai; Lutz, Sue; Wen, Jun; Potter, Dan (January 2013). "The Bitter and the Sweet: Inference of Homology and Evolution of Leaf Glands in Prunus (Rosaceae) through Anatomy, Micromorphology, and Ancestral–Character State Reconstruction". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 174 (1): 27–46. doi:10.1086/668219. JSTOR 10.1086/668219.
  2. Su, Hsiu-Hui; Lee, Ling-Ling (2001). "Food Habits of Formosan Rock Macaques (Macaca cyclopis) in Jentse, Northeastern Taiwan, Assessed by Fecal Analysis and Behavioral Observation" (PDF). International Journal of Primatology. 22 (3): 359–377. doi:10.1023/A:1010799410911. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  3. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:730108-1
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