Vauqueliniinae B. B. Liu

Wang, Hui, Li, Xiao-Ya, Jiang, Yan, Jin, Ze-Tao, Ma, Dai-Kun, Liu, Bing, Xu, Chao, Ge, Bin-Jie, Wang, Ting, Fan, Qiang, Jin, Shui-Hu, Liu, Guang-Ning & Liu, Bin-Bin, 2024, Refining the phylogeny and taxonomy of the apple tribe Maleae (Rosaceae): insights from phylogenomic analyses of 563 plastomes and a taxonomic synopsis of Photinia and its allies in the Old World, PhytoKeys 242, pp. 161-227 : 161-227

3. Subtribe Vauqueliniinae B. B. Liu subtr. nov.

Type.

Vauquelinia Corrêa ex Bonpl.

Description.

Large shrubs or small trees, evergreen. Leaves simple, coriaceous, with serrate margins. Inflorescences terminal, 15–25 + - flowered, compound corymbs. Flowers bisexual, 5 - merous. Hypanthium hemispherical. Sepals 5, erect, broadly ovate, valvate. Petals 5, white, oblong-ovate to oblong-obovate. Stamens 18-20. Carpels 5, free from hypanthium, ventrally connate; ovules 2 per cell, ascending, apotropous. Fruits capsules, broadly ovoid, sericeous, ventrally (fully) and dorsally (in distal 1 / 2) dehiscent, splitting into 5 follicles; hypanthium persistent; sepals persistent, erect; styles persistent. Seeds 2 per follicle. 2 n = 30.

Remark.

This subtribe comprises only one genus, Vauquelinia , with about three species distributed in Mexico and the Southwestern United States.