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Crataegus ×ninae-celottiae and C. ×cogswellii (Rosaceae, Maleae), two spontaneously formed intersectional nothospecies.

Knud Ib Christensen1, Mehdi Zarrei2, Maria Kuzmina3, Nadia Talent4, Charlotte Lin5, Timothy A Dickinson6.   

Abstract

Crataegus monogyna Jacq. is naturalized in North America, where it has hybridized with native diploid hawthorns at least twice. We provide names for the two nothospecies (as well as for the corresponding nothosections and nothoseries), referring to existing documentation in the literature for nothosp. nov. Crataegus ×ninae-celottiae K.I. Chr. & T.A. Dickinson (C. monogyna × C. punctata Jacq.). New data are provided to further document nothosp. nov. Crataegus ×cogswellii K.I. Chr. & T.A. Dickinson (C. monogyna × C. suksdorfii (Sarg.) Kruschke). In both cases, the striking differences in leaf shape between most New World hawthorns and Old World section Crataegus, and the intermediacy of the hybrids, account for the relative ease with which these hybrids can be recognized. Finally, new sequence data from ITS2 and chloroplast DNA barcoding loci confirm the genetic relationships between the two nothospecies and their respective parents.

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Keywords:  DNA barcodes; ITS2; North America; diploid; hawthorn; hybridization; leaf shape

Year:  2014        PMID: 24843290      PMCID: PMC4023339          DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.36.6784

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  PhytoKeys        ISSN: 1314-2003            Impact factor:   1.635


Introduction

Jacq. is a widespread species of sect. that occurs in much of Europe, northern Africa and western Asia. Within the area of its natural distribution it hybridizes with several other species of sect. , e.g., (Poir.) DC., Gand., Pojark., Waldst. & Kit. ex Willd., M. Bieb., and L., as well as Waldst. & Kit. of sect. (Albarouki and Peterson 2007; Byatt 1975; Christensen 1983; Christensen 1992a, b, 1994; Christensen and Zielinski 2008; Dönmez 2004). In fact, Christensen (1992) applied the term “compilospecies” to . This term, coined by Harlan and DeWet (1963), describes species that aggressively acquire genes from other species by introgressive hybridization, potentially explaining the “…great variability of and also its wide distribution” in the Old World (Christensen 1992a). was introduced to the U.S.A. and Canada by the early European settlers (Billings 1862; Douglas 1914; Kirk 1819; Provancher 1863). It has often escaped from cultivation and, e.g., in abandoned fields and woodlands with extensive hawthorn colonization, it may hybridize with native diploid species of such as Jacq. (sect. Loudon; Phipps pers. comm.; Wells and Phipps 1989) and (Sarg.) Kruschke (sect. Loudon; Dickinson et al. 2008; Love and Feigen 1978; Talent and Dickinson 2005). Because of the striking contrast in leaf shape between members of sect. and most North American species, these hybrids are currently the best-known examples of diploid-diploid hybridization in the North American flora. We provide names for these two nothospecies (as well as for the corresponding nothosections and nothoseries), referring to existing documentation in the literature for K.I. Chr. & T.A. Dickinson ( × Jacq.; Wells and Phipps 1989). We also document variation in leaf shape for the second hybrid, K.I. Chr. & T.A. Dickinson ( × ), and provide new sequence data from ITS2 and chloroplast DNA barcoding loci that confirm the genetic relationships between the two nothospecies and their respective parents.

Methods

Sampling. Because the occurrence of PageBreakPageBreakPageBreak and its hybrids is sporadic, most of our samples are non-random, and merely attempt to document the co-occurrence of the parental species and (or) their hybrids (Table 1). Only in the case of the hybrid swarm found at the Cogswell-Foster Preserve in Linn Co., Oregon (site OR1), have we used either the throw of a pair of dice or ignorant person sampling (Ward 1974) in order to draw more unbiased samples, with the inevitable consequence that these samples reflect the greater frequency of the introduced species and its hybrids. To mitigate this, we have included individuals of mostly diploid from other sites in order to reflect the variation found in this taxon.
Table 1.

Sites in Canada and the United States at which collections of native and naturalized diploid (unless indicated otherwise) were made as vouchers for morphological, chemical, and molecular (boldface) observations (Fig. 1–3; Tables 2–4). Sampled individuals are listed by their collector and collection number; principal collector is T. A. Dickinson (D) unless indicated otherwise, as follows: JC, J. Coughlan; CAR, Rebecca Dotterer; EH, E. Harris; EL, E. Y. Y. Lo; RML, R. M. Love; MP, M. A. Purich; Z, P. Zika.

State/Province
SiteLocationTaxonIndividuals
British Columbia
BC16Central Kootenay R.D., Robson, Broadwater Road, Broadwater Road S sideCrataegus monogyna2008-26
BCCentral Kootenay R.D., Winlaw, next to Winlaw general store (10 miles S of Slocan) on bank of small creek (tributary of Slocan River).Crataegus suksdorfii Probably polyploidRML9313
California
CA11Humboldt Co., Hwy 36, 6.8 air km W of BridgevilleCrataegus monogynaJC001
CAR4Trinity Co., T37N R7W S17Crataegus suksdorfii Polyploid?CAR042
CAR5Siskiyou Co., flood plain of the Scott R., N side of Fay Lane, between jct. Hwy 3 and bridgeCrataegus suksdorfii2006-16, 2006-18, 2006-19, 2006-22, CAR044
CAR7Siskiyou Co., T26N R11W S17Crataegus suksdorfii Polyploid?CAR048
CRRR01Sonoma Co., Ragle Ranch, W of SebastopolCrataegus monogynaJC003
Idaho
ID10Benewah Co., T44N R1W S8, Soldier Creek, W side of Hwy 3 just N of RR crossing and St. Mary’s R.Crataegus suksdorfii Probably polyploidD1608
Montana
MT1Powell Co., Dry Creek, N side, edge of meadow and gallery forestCrataegus suksdorfiiD1614, D1619
Ontario
NTON23City of Toronto, Centennial Park, EtobicokeCrataegus punctataMP71
Crataegus ×ninae-celottiaeMP24, MP73
ON21Bruce Co., Eastnor Twp., Barrow Bay, E side Hwy 9 at S.R. 15Crataegus punctataDickinson & Nguyen BB4
ON31Middlesex Co., Ilderton, SE corner Denfield Side Road and Ilderton Road (Hwy 16)Crataegus punctataEH52, MP56, MP61, 2003-79
ON40City of Toronto, Ashbridges Bay ParkCrataegus punctataMP35
ON45Durham R.M., Bowmanville, floodplain of Bowmanville CreekCrataegus monogynaMP82, MP83, MP98
Crataegus ×ninae-celottiae2002-13, MP84, MP85, MP86
Crataegus punctataMP81
ON46Perth Co., E side Thames R. North Branch 2 km S of MotherwellCrataegus punctata2008-72A
Oregon
OR1Linn Co., Willamette Valley, Cogswell-Foster PreserveCrataegus monogyna (diploid)EL74, EL78, EL80, EL83, OR1-5, OR1-8, OR1-9, OR1-10, OR1-11, OR1-12, OR1-16
Triploid Crataegus monogynaRML C-2003-25
Crataegus ×cogswellii99FW7-1, 99FW7-2, 99FW7-3, 99FW7-6, 99FW7-7, 99FW7-8, 99FW7-9, 2009-36, EL68, EL71, EL73, EL76, EL77, EL79, EL81, EL82, EL84, EL85, OR1-2, OR1-3, OR1-4, OR1-6, OR1-7, OR1-13, OR1-14, OR1-15, OR1-17, OR1-18, OR1-19, OR1-20, RML8718
Crataegus suksdorfiiEL68, EL69, EL72, EL75, OR1-1, RML8709
ORLane Co, City of EugeneCrataegus ×cogswelliiRML C-2003-12, RML C-2003-13, RML9304
OR4Douglas Co., Upper Elk Meadow, 28 miles SSE Cottage GroveCrataegus suksdorfii Probably polyploidRML8758, RML8767, RML8768
OR11Columbia Co., Sauvie Island, Willow Park Island, Willow Bar Islands beach, just N of Columbia-Multnomah county line, on bank of Columbia RiverCrataegus monogynaEL108
Crataegus ×cogswelliiZ18482
Crataegus suksdorfiiJC117, JC118, JC119
OR18Jackson Co., Rogue River, Old Stage Rd. 80 m NE of Rogue River Hwy/99Crataegus suksdorfiiJC039
OR22Linn Co., Corvallis, KOA Campground, 440 m from hwy 34 on Oakville Rd. SW. specimen 150 m SE of camp entranceCrataegus suksdorfiiJC060
OR35Skamania Co., Cascade Locks, 110 m N of Cascade Locks Rd., on N side of Forest Ln.Crataegus suksdorfiiJC092
OR37Multnomah Co., Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, 1.5 km NE of TroutdaleCrataegus suksdorfiiJC098, JC102
OR38Columbia Co., Diblee Pt., Site 350 m N of Dike Rd., 1.8 km WNW of Lewis and Clark BridgeCrataegus suksdorfiiJC136
Washington
WAClark Co. S of mouth of Lewis River, ca. 1.5 air miles NNW of RidgefieldCrataegus suksdorfiiZ18485
WA8Skamania Co., Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Zig Zag Lake, 9 mi NW of Wind R.Crataegus suksdorfii Probably polyploidBrooks s.n.
WA10Skamania Co., Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Upper Goose Creek MeadowCrataegus suksdorfii Probably polyploidRML8909
Sites in Canada and the United States at which collections of native and naturalized diploid (unless indicated otherwise) were made as vouchers for morphological, chemical, and molecular (boldface) observations (Fig. 1–3; Tables 2–4). Sampled individuals are listed by their collector and collection number; principal collector is T. A. Dickinson (D) unless indicated otherwise, as follows: JC, J. Coughlan; CAR, Rebecca Dotterer; EH, E. Harris; EL, E. Y. Y. Lo; RML, R. M. Love; MP, M. A. Purich; Z, P. Zika.
Figure 1.

Principal components analysis biplot for five morphometric descriptors averaged for each of 41 herbarium specimens from the Cogswell-Foster Preserve and other locations in the Pacific Northwest ( (s), (m), and the putative hybrid, (h)): relX, leaf length above the widest point, scaled by the width; relZ, leaf length below the widest point, scaled by the width; invDI, inverse dissection index = 2(Aπ)1/2/P, where A is the leaf area and P is the leaf perimeter; STAM, number of stamens per flower; STYL, number of styles per flower. Both axes shown account for significant portions of the total variance according to the broken-stick criterion (Frontier 1976).

Figure 2.

A Principal components analysis of 39 Fourier amplitudes for 86 subterminal short shoot leaves from 20 individuals at the Cogswell-Foster Preserve in Linn Co., Oregon (one (s), seven (m), and 12 putative hybrids (h), ). Leaf outlines illustrate the shape contrasts responsible for the ordination: in grey, six subterminal leaves from short shoots of a single individual (OR1–8) B Principal components analysis of 39 Fourier amplitudes averaged for leaves sampled regardless of position on short shoots of 64 herbarium specimens from the Cogswell-Foster Preserve and (circled points) other locations in the Pacific Northwest (Table 1). In both A and B the two PCA axes shown are significant according to the broken-stick criterion (Frontier 1976). In B arrowed point 1 represents the single individual of for which individual leaves are represented in A, while arrowed point 2 represents the averaged data for the six leaves of shown in grey in A.

Figure 3.

A Neighbor-joining tree calculated by BOLD for ITS2 DNA barcode sequences amplified directly from genomic DNA (labels include corresponding collector and GenBank number; see dx.doi.org/10.5883/DS-CRATMONO and Table 1 for details). Dashed lines indicate the sectional affinity of the sequences B The corresponding Neighbor-Net network for the cloned ITS2 sequences has three branches representing: (a) ribotypes from individuals of , and from its hybrids with both and ; (b) ribotypes from individuals of and ; and (c) ribotypes from individuals of and (Table 3). The numbers shown are the % bootstrap support for each of the three branches.

Table 2.

Results of Neighbor-joining clustering of sequence data for chloroplast DNA barcode loci. GenBank accession numbers indicate cluster affiliation (Cluster 1 or 2) for species and their putative hybrids. Details of the BOLD data can be found at dx.doi.org/10.5883/DS-CRATMONO. See Table 1 for sites and collectors; eight-digit ROM Green Plant Herbarium (TRT) accession numbers identify vouchers.

Taxon / site / BOLD / tree / TRTCluster 1 – sections Coccineae and DouglasiaCluster 2 – section Crataegus
rbcL-atrnH-psbArbcL-atrnH-psbA
Crataegus punctata
NTON23 TRT103 MP71 TRT00002237KC251377KC251652
ON31 TRT096 MP61 TRT00002228KC251375KC251650
ON31 TRT105 MP56 TRT00002223KC251372KC251647
ON40 TRT101 MP35 TRT00002203KC251374KC251649
ON45 TRT104 MP81 TRT000047KC251378KC251653
ON46 TRT210 2008-72A TRT00000908KC251373KC251648
Crataegus ×ninae-celottiae
NTON23 TRT106 MP24 TRT00002199KC251376KC251651
NTON23 TRT203 MP73 TRT00002239KC251350KC251624
ON45 TRT201 MP85 TRT00002250KC251348KC251622
ON45 TRT202 MP86 TRT00002251KC251351KC251625
ON45 TRT204 MP84 TRT00002249KC251349KC251623
Crataegus monogyna
BC16 TRT209 2008-26 TRT00002452KC251343KC251617
CA11 TRT274 JC001 TRT00020101KC251338KC251612
CRRR01 TRT275 JC003 TRT00020102KC251341KC251615
ON31 TRT109 2003-79 TRT00000395KC251340KC251614
ON45 TRT108 MP82KC251342KC251616
ON45 TRT190 MP83 TRT00002248KC251339KC251613
ON45 TRT211 MP98 TRT00029476KC251336KC251610
OR1 TRT005 EL80 TRT00000413KC251347KC251621
OR1 TRT006 EL83 TRT00000415KC251346KC251620
OR1 TRT007 EL74 TRT00000416KC251344KC251618
OR TRT030 RML C-2003-25 TRT00000420KC251337KC251611
OR11 TRT143 EL108 TRT00000417KC251345KC251619
Crataegus ×cogswellii
OR1 TRT206 EL71 TRT00002650KC251627
OR1 TRT207 EL85 TRT00002654KC251626
OR1 TRT208 EL79 TRT00002657KC251352
Crataegus suksdorfii
CAR5 TRT129 2006-19 TRT00001569KC251419KC251692
CAR5 TRT133 2006-22 TRT00001563KC251418KC251691
CAR5 TRT140 2006-16 TRT00001567KC251417KC251690
CAR5 TRT141 2006-18 TRT00001568KC251416KC251689
OR1 TRT205 EL68 TRT00001724KC251424KC251699
WA TRT146 Z18485 TRT00001805KC251415KC251688
Table 3.

Voucher specimens for cloned ITS2 data, listing site number (Table 1), collection number, ROM Green Plant Herbarium (TRT) accession numbers, and the GenBank accession numbers for individual clones.

TaxaVoucherGenBank accession number
Crataegus suksdorfiiOR18 Coughlan, Zarrei, and Shaw JC039 (TRT00020137)KC173887, KC173888, KC173889, KC173890, KC173891, KC173892, KC173893
OR22 Coughlan, Zarrei, and Shaw JC60 (TRT00020146)KC173587, KC173588, KC173589, KC173590, KC173591, KC173592
OR35 Coughlan, Zarrei, and Shaw JC092 (TRT00020153)KC173957, KC173958, KC173959, KC173960, KC173961, KC173962, KC173963, KC173964
OR37 Coughlan, Zarrei, and Shaw JC98 (TRT00020159)KC173595, KC173596, KC173597, KC173598, KC173599, KC173600, KC173601, KC173602, KC173603, KC173604
OR37 Coughlan, Zarrei, and Shaw JC102 (TRT00020163)KC174113, KC174114, KC174115, KC174116, KC174117
OR11 Coughlan, Zarrei, and Shaw JC117 (TRT00020172)KC174118, KC174119
OR11 Coughlan, Zarrei, and Shaw JC118 (TRT00020232)KC174178, KC174179, KC174180, KC174181, KC174182, KC174183
OR11 Coughlan, Zarrei, and Shaw JC119 (TRT00020234)KC174144, KC174145, KC174146, KC174147, KC174148, KC174149, KC174150
OR38 Coughlan, Zarrei, and Shaw JC136 (TRT00020242)KC173605, KC173606, KC173607, KC173608, KC173609
CAR5 Dickinson and Lo 2006-16 (TRT00001567)KC173531, KC173532, KC173533, KC173534, KC173535, KC173536, KC173537, KC173538
CAR5 Lo and Dickinson 2006-22 (TRT00001563)KC173522, KC173523, KC173524, KC173525, KC173526, KC173527, KC173528, KC173529, KC173530
OR1 Lo, Dickinson, and Nguyen EL-68 (TRT00001724)KC173577, KC173578, KC173579, KC173580, KC173581, KC173582, KC173583, KC173584, KC173585, KC173586
WA Zika 18485 (=18430, 18417; TRT00001805)KC173513, KC173514, KC173515, KC173516, KC173517, KC173518, KC173519, KC173520, KC173521
Crataegus ×cogswelliiOR1 Lo, Dickinson, and Nguyen EL-71 (TRT00002650)KC173663, KC173664, KC173665, KC173666, KC173667, KC173668
OR1 Lo, Dickinson, and Nguyen EL-79 (TRT00002657)KC173682, KC173683, KC173684, KC173685, KC173686, KC173687
OR1 Lo, Dickinson, and Nguyen EL-85 (TRT00002654)KC173669, KC173670, KC173671, KC173672, KC173673, KC173674, KC173675, KC173676, KC173677, KC173678, KC173679, KC173680, KC173681
Crataegus monogynaOR1 Lo, Dickinson, and Nguyen EL-74 (TRT00000416)KC173650, KC173651, KC173652, KC173653, KC173654
BC16 Dickinson, Lee, and Talent 2008-26 (TRT00002452)KC173655, KC173656, KC173657, KC173658, KC173659, KC173660, KC173661, KC173662
ON45 Purich MP98 (TRT00029476)KC173643, KC173644, KC173645, KC173646, KC173647, KC173648, KC173649
Crataegus ×ninae-celottiaeON45 Purich and Talent MP84 (TRT00002249)KC174184, KC174185, KC174186, KC174187, KC174188, KC174189
ON45 Purich and Talent MP85 (TRT00002250)KC174190, KC174191, KC174192, KC174193, KC174194, KC174195
ON45 Purich and Talent MP86 (TRT00002251)KC173688, KC173689, KC173690, KC173691, KC173692, KC173693
Crataegus punctataON21 Dickinson and Nguyen BB4 (TRT)KC174266, KC174267, KC174268, KC174269, KC174270, KC174271
ON31 Purich s.n (TRT)KC174272, KC174273, KC174274, KC174275
NTON23 Purich, Talent, Nguyen, and Lo MP73 (TRT00002239)KC173694, KC173695, KC173696, KC173697, KC173698, KC173699, KC173700, KC173701
Table 4.

Flow-cytometric results from seeds of the two described nothospecies. The ratios shown for endosperm and embryo nuclear DNA contents are well within the ranges observed for sexually reproducing (Talent unpubl. data) and diploid (Lo et al. 2013).

Taxon / TRT accession / site / collectionTotal number seedsMean embryo DNAMean endosperm:embryo ratio (number of seeds)
Crataegus ×ninae-celottiae
ON45 2002-13 (TRT00000406)21.58 pg1.56 (2)
ON31 EH52 (TRT00002256)11.67 pg1.53 (1)
Crataegus ×cogswellii
OR1 EL-79 (TRT00002657)32.08 pg1.58 (1)
OR1 2009-36 (TRT00002568)11.87 pg1.60 (1)
Results of Neighbor-joining clustering of sequence data for chloroplast DNA barcode loci. GenBank accession numbers indicate cluster affiliation (Cluster 1 or 2) for species and their putative hybrids. Details of the BOLD data can be found at dx.doi.org/10.5883/DS-CRATMONO. See Table 1 for sites and collectors; eight-digit ROM Green Plant Herbarium (TRT) accession numbers identify vouchers. Voucher specimens for cloned ITS2 data, listing site number (Table 1), collection number, ROM Green Plant Herbarium (TRT) accession numbers, and the GenBank accession numbers for individual clones. Note that we distinguish the taxon referred to here as from the other western North American black-fruited hawthorn with 20 stamens per flower, A. Heller. This is because these two taxa are allopatric (Coughlan 2012 and unpubl. data), and differ in morphology and cytotype. has shorter petioles and thorns that are thicker at their base than is the case with diploid (Dickinson unpubl. data). Molecular data are consistent with being an autotriploid derivative of diploid (Zarrei et al. http://2012.botanyconference.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=536 and unpubl. data; see also Lo et al. 2009). In contrast, the complex has been shown to comprise, in addition to diploids, allotriploids and allotetraploids (Zarrei et al. http://2012.botanyconference.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=536 and unpubl. data). In order to increase our sample for molecular studies we have supplemented field collections of leaf tissue and herbarium vouchers with tissue removed from existing specimens in the ROM Green Plant Herbarium. Historical records of the distribution of were collected from five herbaria across Canada (TRT, MTMG, MT, QFA and UBC). Online databases of Canadian and U.S. herbaria used included ACAD, the Invader Database System of the University of Montana (which contains information for five northwestern states: Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming), OSC, and WTU. Distribution maps were prepared from specimen locality data using SimpleMappr (Shorthouse 2010). Names of sections and series used here follow those published by VASCAN (Brouillet et al. 2010), and are accepted names sensu FNA Ed. Comm. in prep. Morphology. For this study we concentrated on capturing and analyzing leaf shape data, as described elsewhere (Dickinson et al. 2008). Many previous studies of hybridization involving PageBreak (Bradshaw 1953; Byatt 1975; Love and Feigen 1978), and of leaf shape variation in generally (e.g. El-Gazzar 1980; Phipps and O’Kennon 2007), have attempted to quantify leaf lobing by means of a ratio of two measurements, x and y, where x is the distance from the tip of a lobe (usually the most basal one) to the deepest point of the sinus between that lobe and the adjacent one above it, and y is a measure of leaf size, usually the parallel distance from the tip of the lobe to the midrib. This approach can be effective when comparisons involve only leaves that have some degree of lobing (e.g. studies of hybridization between and in Europe, or of the lobed leaves of many species belonging to North American sect. , such as ). However, when lobing is absent altogether the necessary landmarks (lobe tip, deepest point of the sinus) are absent, and the distance x is undefined or is set to zero (Love and Feigen 1978). In this case, a better approach is to carry out multivariate analyses of additional measurements of leaves and other organs (Wells and Phipps 1989), or to quantify variation in the leaf outline as a whole. Elliptic Fourier coefficients obtained from digitized leaf outlines captured using MorphoSys (Meacham and Duncan 1991), or the Fourier amplitudes derived from them, provide a useful method for doing just this (Dickinson et al. 2008; McLellan and Endler 1998; Rohlf and Archie 1984). Leaf outline data were collected from two overlapping samples: (1) short shoot leaf spectra (Dickinson and Phipps 1984) collected from a random sample of individuals at the Cogswell-Foster Preserve (comprising one , seven , and 12 putative hybrids), and (2) leaves on herbarium specimens from the Cogswell-Foster Preserve and other locations in the Pacific Northwest. In the latter the attempt was made to sample the leaf shape variation seen in as widely as possible. In both cases, variation in the shape of the leaf blade (i.e. excluding the petiole) was summarized by means of 39 Fourier amplitudes, and displayed by means of principal components analysis. For each leaf outline we also obtained the area (A) and perimeter (P), so as to calculate the inverse of the dissection index described by Kincaid and Schneider (1978), i.e. inv(D.I.) = 2(Aπ)1/2/P, a parameter that has an upper bound of one for a perfect circle regardless of size, and approaches zero as the length of the perimeter increases with increased lobing of the outline (Dickinson 2003; Dorken and Barrett 2004). In addition to outline data we made linear measurements with which to index overall leaf shape: X, leaf blade length above the widest point; Y, leaf width; and Z, leaf blade length below the widest point (Marshall 1978). On some of the flowering specimens in our sample we collected additional data on stamen number, style length and style number (in fruiting specimens, equivalently, pyrene number), and stigma width, in order to compare these with data collected by others from the introduced species and . After transformation to a common [0,1] range these data were also summarized using principal components analysis. Analyses of variance were carried out on selected measurements. All data analyses described above were carried out using the R environment for statistical computing (R Core Team 2013). Significance of individual principal component axes was evaluated using the broken-stick criterion (Frontier 1976) with the help of R function evplot (Borcard et al. 2011). Molecular methods. Four DNA barcodes (rbcL, matK, trnH-psbA, and ITS2; CBOL Plant Working Group 2009; Chase et al. 2007; Hollingsworth et al. 2011) were generated directly from genomic DNA for a worldwide sample of (Dickinson et al. http://2011.botanyconference.org/engine/search/720.html; Zarrei et al. unpubl. data). The plastid origin of the markers was used to establish the maternal parentage of the hybrids. DNA was extracted and amplified from leaf tissue of individuals representing the two hybrids and their parent species (Table 2) using Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding (CCDB) protocols (Ivanova et al. 2011; Kuzmina and Ivanova 2011a, b). This sample overlapped partially with the cloned ITS2 one (below), and provided an additional two , 10 , and five individuals, as well as one more of each of the two hybrids (Table 2). We also analyzed data from another project (Zarrei et al. http://2012.botanyconference.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=536 and unpubl. data) in which ITS2 was cloned for a sample of individuals that included 14 PageBreakPageBreakPageBreak, four , three and two each of the two hybrids (Table 3). Methods for extracting total genomic DNA, marker amplification, cloning, DNA sequencing, and collapsing original sequences to unique sequences (ribotypes) are described elsewhere (Zarrei et al. http://2012.botanyconference.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=536 and unpubl. data). Here we report on analyses of a total of 160 ribotypes (Table 3). A recombination test was performed using RDP4 Beta 4.14 (Martin et al. 2010). The Neighbor-Net analysis (Bryant and Moulton 2004) was undertaken using SplitsTree v.4.12.3 (Huson and Bryant 2006) to visualize incompatible splits in the network from uncorrected p-distances calculated with MEGA5 (Tamura et al. 2011). Bootstrap support (BS) was estimated using 1,000 bootstrap pseudoreplicates (Felsenstein 1985) implemented in SplitsTree. Flow cytometry. Flow-cytometric methods for quantifying nuclear DNA in embryo and endosperm followed Talent and Dickinson (2007a). Embryo DNA amounts of 1.48–1.70 pg were taken to indicate diploids, and an endosperm to embryo ratio of approximately 1.5 was taken to indicate sexual reproduction with meiosis.

Results and discussion

Morphology. Despite differences in sample size, the Pacific Northwest hybrid, , appears more variable than either of its putative parents, or (Fig. 1). The hybrid is clearly intermediate with respect to both leaf lobing (the inverse Dissection Index; Fig. 1) and style number (STYLE; Fig. 1). Principal components analyses of leaf outlines from Pacific Northwest , , and their putative hybrid, demonstrate variation in leaf shape both within and between these three entities (Fig. 2A, B). The first principal component reflects the contrast between the unlobed leaves of and the markedly lobed ones of , as well as the intermediacy of the hybrid (Fig. 2A, B), much as illustrated earlier by Love and Feigen (1978; their Fig. 3), and by Wells and Phipps (1989) for the Ontario hybrid and its parents (their Fig. 4). The second principal component reflects variation in the relative overall lengths and widths of the leaf outlines (Fig. 2A).
Figure 4.

Geographic distribution of K.I. Chr. & T.A. Dickinson nothosp. nov. and in Ontario. Filled square, holotype of ; Crosses, TRT specimens of ; asterisks, specimens cited by Wells and Phipps (1989); stars, specimens of in MT, MTMG, QFA, TRT, and UBC. occurs throughout the region depicted (Phipps and Muniyamma 1980; this paper also maps additional records for ).

Principal components analysis biplot for five morphometric descriptors averaged for each of 41 herbarium specimens from the Cogswell-Foster Preserve and other locations in the Pacific Northwest ( (s), (m), and the putative hybrid, (h)): relX, leaf length above the widest point, scaled by the width; relZ, leaf length below the widest point, scaled by the width; invDI, inverse dissection index = 2(Aπ)1/2/P, where A is the leaf area and P is the leaf perimeter; STAM, number of stamens per flower; STYL, number of styles per flower. Both axes shown account for significant portions of the total variance according to the broken-stick criterion (Frontier 1976). A Principal components analysis of 39 Fourier amplitudes for 86 subterminal short shoot leaves from 20 individuals at the Cogswell-Foster Preserve in Linn Co., Oregon (one (s), seven (m), and 12 putative hybrids (h), ). Leaf outlines illustrate the shape contrasts responsible for the ordination: in grey, six subterminal leaves from short shoots of a single individual (OR1–8) B Principal components analysis of 39 Fourier amplitudes averaged for leaves sampled regardless of position on short shoots of 64 herbarium specimens from the Cogswell-Foster Preserve and (circled points) other locations in the Pacific Northwest (Table 1). In both A and B the two PCA axes shown are significant according to the broken-stick criterion (Frontier 1976). In B arrowed point 1 represents the single individual of for which individual leaves are represented in A, while arrowed point 2 represents the averaged data for the six leaves of shown in grey in A. A Neighbor-joining tree calculated by BOLD for ITS2 DNA barcode sequences amplified directly from genomic DNA (labels include corresponding collector and GenBank number; see dx.doi.org/10.5883/DS-CRATMONO and Table 1 for details). Dashed lines indicate the sectional affinity of the sequences B The corresponding Neighbor-Net network for the cloned ITS2 sequences has three branches representing: (a) ribotypes from individuals of , and from its hybrids with both and ; (b) ribotypes from individuals of and ; and (c) ribotypes from individuals of and (Table 3). The numbers shown are the % bootstrap support for each of the three branches. Geographic distribution of K.I. Chr. & T.A. Dickinson nothosp. nov. and in Ontario. Filled square, holotype of ; Crosses, TRT specimens of ; asterisks, specimens cited by Wells and Phipps (1989); stars, specimens of in MT, MTMG, QFA, TRT, and UBC. occurs throughout the region depicted (Phipps and Muniyamma 1980; this paper also maps additional records for ). DNA barcode loci. Analyses of both the directly sequenced and the cloned ITS2 ribotypes demonstrate the parentage of both putative hybrids (Fig. 3; Table ); no signs of recombination were detected in the cloned ITS2 dataset. ITS2 sequences from the hybrids resemble either PageBreak or one of the native North American species. The way in which both parental ribotypes are maintained in each of the hybrids examined here is probably due to how recently the hybrids have been formed: less than 200 years ago in the case of the Ontario hybrids (Douglas 1914; Kirk 1819; Provancher 1863), and less than 100 years ago in the case of the Oregon ones (the earliest specimen of was collected in 1914 in Douglas Co. Oregon; Phipps 1998). These time periods are evidently too short for genome homogenization (concerted evolution) to have taken place, even in diploids reproducing sexually. Our small sample of seed from the hybrids (Table 4) parallels earlier results (Talent and Dickinson 2007a) showing diploidy and sexual reproduction in both parental taxa. Flow-cytometric results from seeds of the two described nothospecies. The ratios shown for endosperm and embryo nuclear DNA contents are well within the ranges observed for sexually reproducing (Talent unpubl. data) and diploid (Lo et al. 2013). Only two of the three chloroplast genome barcode loci showed sufficient variation for individuals from section to be distinguished from ones belonging to either section or section (Table 2). Sequence data from both rbcL-a and the trnH-psbA spacer region showed the same two clusters, sections and (Cluster 1), and sect. (Cluster 2; Table 2). The way in which the hybrids fell into one of these clusters or the other demonstrates that, with one exception, is the female parent of the Ontario hybrids with studied here, while is the female parent of the Pacific Northwest hybrids. These results corroborate earlier observations based on seed-set in artificial crosses between the parent species (Love and Feigen 1978; Wells and Phipps 1989). In reciprocal pollinations seed set was greatest (32–34%) when stigmas received pollen from (Wells and Phipps 1989). Fruit set was most successful when pollen was applied to the stigmas of flowers (mean 42%, range 25–73%, compared to a 29% mean fruit set by with open pollination; Love and Feigen 1978). However, all reciprocal crosses between , , and their hybrid yielded seeds (R. M. Love, personal communication). Our use of data from DNA barcoding is not a test of the value of DNA barcoding in , as this is discussed elsewhere (Dickinson et al. http://2011.botanyconference.org/engine/search/720.html; Zarrei et al. unpubl. data). Rather, we have taken advantage of our barcode sequence data from individuals unequivocally identifiable as , , and their hybrids in order to use sequence similarity to inform us about the hybridization process. Hybridization. Since its introduction to North America during the late 18th and the 19th centuries (Kirk 1819; Provancher 1863; Douglas 1914), first on the east coast and PageBreakthen on the west, has become widely naturalized in the U.S.A. (EDDMapS 2013) and Canada (Phipps and Muniyamma 1980; Phipps 1998; Lin 2009). Nevertheless, except for isolated occurrences in northern Delaware and adjacent Pennsylvania, as well as in Kentucky, Utah, and the San Francisco Bay area in California, in North America is not found south of 40°N latitude. In Ontario, appears to be the only native diploid with a similarly late flowering period that is also frequently sympatric with (Fig. 1 in Campbell et al. 1991; Fig. 4). is the only native hawthorn in the Pacific Northwest known to include diploid individuals, and these are restricted to Oregon and adjacent California and Washington, west of the Cascades (Fig. 5; Lo et al. 2013). Where they co-occur, diploid and flower at the same time, the latter species much more abundantly than the former (Love and Feigen 1978).
Figure 5.

Geographic distribution of K.I. Chr. & T.A. Dickinson nothosp. nov. and its parental species in the Pacific Northwest. Filled square, holotype of ; crosses, TRT specimens of ; circles, diploid ; stars, (specimens in OSC, TRT, UBC, and WTU).

Geographic distribution of K.I. Chr. & T.A. Dickinson nothosp. nov. and its parental species in the Pacific Northwest. Filled square, holotype of ; crosses, TRT specimens of ; circles, diploid ; stars, (specimens in OSC, TRT, UBC, and WTU). may never have been commonly planted in boundary hedges in Canada as it was in Europe. Fences and hedges appear to have been only rarely constructed in 17th Century Canada by European settlers to confine ruminant animals (Greer 2012); the animals were instead fed indoors, but allowed to roam the arable land for a short season after harvest, confined by the wall of surrounding forest. To this day, the hawthorn commonly growing along Ontario fence lines consists of native species, perhaps naturally occurring there. In Ontario forests we often encounter remnants of zig-zag post-and-rail fences, and these had the advantage over a hedge that they could be rapidly constructed as needed to mark property boundaries or to keep animals out of particular areas. In the United States hedging had its advocates in the early nineteenth century, but one of these described the superiority of native species like (“cockspur” or “Newcastle thorn”) and (“parsley-leaved” or “Virginia thorn”) over introduced (Kirk 1819; “to sow or plant without fencing, would (in this country) be a useless labour”). Flow cytometry of seeds from both hybrids was consistent with diploid embryos and triploid endosperm, except that the embryos from show slightly higher than diploid measurements, higher than the 1.39–1.66 pg measurements previously obtained from leaf data (Table 4; Talent and Dickinson 2005). Whether the seeds involved would have germinated is unknown, but in contrast to the large healthy looking seeds from , those from had smaller embryos and were variously misshapen. We noted that some individual trees of have a high degree of parthenocarpy—completely seedless fruit—and the seeds we collected may therefore have been supernumerary to any strongly viable seeds. We can only state that apparently carries out both meiosis and fertilization, as expected of other diploid (Table 4; Talent and Dickinson 2007b). In her examination of hybridization between and in Ontario, Purich (2005) found that the styles of are significantly longer than those of (meanmono = 4.1 mm; meanpunc = 7.3 mm; sample sizes 5/52 and 7/116, individuals/styles). Differences between the two species in pollen grain diameter, hence volume, are not significant (Purich 2005). No such difference in style length is present when comparing and . These results suggest that in Ontario, at least, the longer styles of could act as a barrier to the successful penetration of ovules by pollen tubes from pollen grains (Table 2). With style lengths and pollen grain diameters in and similar (Dickinson unpublished data), it may be that the more abundant flower production of (Love and Feigen 1978) contributes to its role as the predominant pollen parent of . The exception to the summary above (TRT203 in Table 2; as the maternal parent) reflects the way in which differences in style length likely act to influence the direction of hybridization in a probabilistic rather than an absolute way.

Taxonomy

nothosect. K.I. Chr. & T.A. Dickinson nothosect. nov. ( sect. × sect. )

nothoser. K.I. Chr. & T.A. Dickinson nothoser. nov. ( ser. × ser. ) K.I. Chr. & T.A. Dickinson nothosp. nov. (Fig. 6). – Type: CANADA, Ontario, Peel R M, Don Gould Park and E side of Erin Mills Parkway (ON22), 43°31.960'N, 79°39.591'W, woodlot and fields with extensive hawthorn colonization, 2 Jun 1989, Dickinson D1492 (holotype TRT00002197!; isotype S!) (♀ × ♂)
Figure 6.

Holotype of K.I. Chr. & T.A. Dickinson nothosp. nov. (♀ × ♂): TRT00002197, CANADA, Ontario, Peel R M, loc. ON22, Don Gould Park and E side of Erin Mills Parkway, 43°35'N, 79°40'W, abandoned fields with extensive hawthorn colonization, 2 Jun 1989, Dickinson D1492.

Holotype of K.I. Chr. & T.A. Dickinson nothosp. nov. (♀ × ♂): TRT00002197, CANADA, Ontario, Peel R M, loc. ON22, Don Gould Park and E side of Erin Mills Parkway, 43°35'N, 79°40'W, abandoned fields with extensive hawthorn colonization, 2 Jun 1989, Dickinson D1492. Ramunculi pubescenti vel glabri. Folia distalia ramorum fertilium non profunde quinque-undecim-partita, 30–55 mm longa, 16–38 mm lata, nervi supra profunde impressi; stipulae caducae, 3–4 mm longae, plusminusve denticulatae. Inflorescentiae 5–17-florae, laxae, pubescentae; bracteae caducae, plusminusve denticulatae. Sepala integra, rarius sparsim glandulosa, post anthesin reflexa. Fructus 9–12 mm longus, 12–14 mm latus, ruber vel aurantiacus; pulpa lutea, mitis et succida; pyrenae 2–3, ventraliter sulcatae vel foveatae. Remarks. Shrub or tree up to ca. 6 m tall. Twigs of the current year densely to sparsely hairy or glabrous, hairs appressed to patent, straight or slightly curly; twigs of the previous year pale grey or ash-grey; aphyllous thorns 0.5–2 cm long, stout, straight; spine-tipped, leaf- and dwarf-shoot-bearing branchlets lacking. Leaf blades ovate, obovate or elliptical, acute at apex, attenuate, cuneate or rounded at base, shallowly or deeply and regularly lobed, lobes with an acute apex, basal pair of veins convergent, straight or slightly divergent, intercalary veins running to the sinuses partly present, upper surface with ± deeply impressed veins at maturity, dull or lustrous bright or dark green, sparsely hairy and often becoming glabrous except along the veins, hairs appressed or semi-patent; lower surface dull, pale green, sparsely hairy throughout or only along the major veins and in the vein axils, hairs appressed or semi-patent; margin regularly crenate-serrate or serrate, teeth minutely glandular, glands less than 0.1 mm; petiole eglandular, narrowly winged in upper part. Subterminal leaf blade of flowering shoots 30–55 mm long, 16–38 mm wide, shallowly and regularly lobed, lobes 2–5 pairs, basal pair extending 0.2–0.4 times the width of lamina to midrib, each lobe with 6–11 teeth, basal pair of sinuses in apical 1/4 to basal 1/3 of lamina; petiole 6–20 mm long; stipules caducous, membranous or herbaceous, 4–8 mm long, irregularly or regularly glandular-denticulate, with 20–30 teeth. Leaf blades of elongate shoots 35–45 mm long, 25–35 mm wide, shallowly or deeply and regularly lobed, lobes 3–5 pairs, basal pair extending 0.2–0.6 times the width of lamina to midrib, each lobe with 4–11 teeth, basal pair of sinuses in basal 1/2–1/3 of lamina; petiole 8–12 mm; stipules caducous, PageBreakPageBreakherbaceous, ca. 6 mm long, regularly glandular denticulate-serrate, with ca. 15 teeth. Inflorescence 3–4 cm long, lax, corymbose, 5–17-flowered, densely to sparsely hairy, hairs appressed, semi-patent or patent, straight or slightly curly; pedicels 3–18 mm, densely to sparsely hairy, hairs appressed, semi-patent or patent, straight or slightly curly; bracts caducous, membranous or herbaceous, 3–4 mm long, 0.2–0.4 mm wide, linear-lanceolate, 10–15 times as long as wide, irregularly glandular-denticulate, with 5–7 teeth. Hypanthium 3–4 mm long, densely to sparsely hairy, hairs appressed, semi-patent or patent, straight or slightly curly; sepals 2–4 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, triangular-lanceolate or triangular, 1–2.7 times as long as wide, entire or rarely irregularly and minutely glandular-serrate, teeth 0–2, apex acute or obtuse; petals 6–7 mm long and wide; stamens 18–20, anthers 1–1.2 mm long, pink or purple; styles 2–3; hypostyle pilose. Fruit 9–12 mm long, 8–12 mm in diameter, 1.0–1.1 times as long as wide, globose, broadly ellipsoidal or obovoid, ± lustrous, red or orange, punctate with small, pale brown lenticels, up to ca. 0.2 mm in diameter, sparsely hairy, crowned by the persistent, reflexed sepals; calyx tube indistinct, ca. 0.5 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; flesh yellowish, hard and mealy; pyrenes 2–3, ventro-laterally smooth; hypostyle pilose. Phenology. Flowering in May–June. Fruiting in August–September. Reproductive biology. Sexual. 2n = 2x (2n = 34? Muniyamma and Phipps 1979; Talent and Dickinson 2005); diploid embryos and triploid endosperm. Distribution. Eastern Canada. Ontario (Fig. 4). Etymology. honors Nina Celotti (1971–1995), who studied the pollination pathway of the two parent species, and . Similar taxa. differs from in: spine-tipped, leaf- and dwarf-shoot-bearing branchlets lacking; leaf blades with ± deeply impressed veins above; subterminal leaf blade of flowering shoots shallowly lobed, lobes 2–5 pairs (not ± deeply lobed and lobes 1–3 pairs); stipules caducous, often membranous, irregularly or regularly glandular-denticulate, with 20–30 teeth (not ± persistent, herbaceous and ± entire); styles and pyrenes 2–3 (not 1–(2)); fruit often orange, punctate with pale brown lenticels up to ca. 0.2 mm in diameter. differs from in: aphyllous thorns shorter, 0.5–2 cm long (not 2–5 cm long); leaf blades regularly lobed almost to the base (not unlobed or shallowly lobed towards apex), intercalary veins running to the sinuses sometimes present; subterminal leaf blade of flowering shoots usually smaller, up to ca. 55 mm long, and veins 2–5 pairs (not up to ca. 85 mm and veins 6–10 pairs); stipules often herbaceous and irregularly glandular-denticulate; sepals shorter, 2–4 mm long, and wider, 1–2.7 times as long as wide (not 3–7 mm long and 2–4.7 times as long as wide); styles and pyrenes 2–3 (not 3–5); fruit usually smaller, up to ca. 12 mm long and in diameter (not up to ca. 15 mm long and in diameter) and less distinctly punctate with smaller lenticels up to ca. 0.2 mm in diameter (not up to ca. 0.4 mm in diameter). was studied by Phipps and Muniyamma (1980) and by Wells (Wells and Phipps 1989), who documented the intermediacy of the hybrid relative to its parents in leaf, thorn, flower, and fruit characteristics. In addition, paper chromatography was used to compare phenolic profiles of the three entities, which also demonstrated intermediacy. These results have been corroborated using thin layer chromatography (Harris 2001). Both parents and the hybrid are diploids (x = 17, as in other Maleae; Muniyamma and Phipps 1979; Talent and Dickinson 2005), and both parents are highly pollen fertile (stainability > 80%). Pollen stainability in the hybrid was found to be variable (27–97%, mostly in the range 60–80%; Purich 2005). Specimens examined, paratypes (in bold, specimens in Tables 2–4). CANADA, Ontario: Peel Co., City of Mississauga, Don Gould Park and E side of Erin Mills Parkway (ON22), 1989-06-02, Dickinson D1480 (TRT00000408!); 1989-06-02, Dickinson D1482 (TRT00000407!); 1989-05-31, Dickinson D1485 (TRT00000409!); 2000-05-19, Talent NT-03 (TRT00002306!); 2011-05-28, Christensen & Dickinson s.n. (TRT00024869!). Middlesex Co., Denfield Twp., SE corner Denfield Side Road and Ilderton Road (ON31), 2001-05-17, Harris & Dickinson EH-52 (TRT00002256!); 2001-05-17, Harris & Dickinson EH-54 (TRT00002257!); 2002-07-30, Talent & Dickinson EH52 (TRT00000405!). Durham R.M., Bowmanville, floodplain of Bowmanville Creek (ON45), 2002-09-30, Dickinson & Nguyen 2002-13 (TRT00000406!), 2004-06-03, Purich 85 (TRT00002250!), 2004-06-03, Purich 86 (TRT00002251!). nothoser. K.I. Chr. & T.A. Dickinson nothoser. nov. ( ser. × ser. ) K.I. Chr. & T.A. Dickinson nothosp. nov. (Fig. 7.). – Type: U.S.A., Oregon, Linn Co., Cogswell-Foster Preserve, 44°19.985'N, 123°7.353'W, 3 Sep 2009, Dickinson & Dickinson 2009-40 (holotype TRT00002574!; isotype TRT). (♀ × ♂)
Figure 7.

Holotype of K.I. Chr. & T.A. Dickinson nothosp. nov. (♀ × ♂): TRT00002574, U.S.A., Oregon, Linn Co., Cogswell-Foster Preserve, 44.333082°N, 123.122547°W, 3 Sep 2009, Dickinson & Dickinson 2009-40.

Holotype of K.I. Chr. & T.A. Dickinson nothosp. nov. (♀ × ♂): TRT00002574, U.S.A., Oregon, Linn Co., Cogswell-Foster Preserve, 44.333082°N, 123.122547°W, 3 Sep 2009, Dickinson & Dickinson 2009-40. Ramunculi glabri vel rarius sparsim villoso-lanati. Folia distalia ramorum fertilium quinque-novem-partita, rarius integra, 25–70 mm longa, 15–50 mm lata; stipulae caducae, 4–8 mm longae, plusminusve denticulatae. Inflorescentiae 4–25-florae, laxae, glabrae vel rarius villoso-lanatae; bracteae caducae, plusminusve denticulatae. Sepala integra vel rarius sparsim glandulosa, post anthesin reflexa. Fructus 9–12 mm longus, 12–14 mm latus, lampro-atro-purpureus vel anthracinus; pulpa lutea, mitis et succida; pyrenae 2–5, ventraliter sulcatae vel foveatae. Remarks. Shrub or tree up to ca. 12 m tall. Twigs of the current year glabrous, rarely sparsely villous-lanate; twigs of the previous year dark reddish-brown or pale- or dark-grey; aphyllous thorns 0.5–2 cm long, stout, straight or slightly recurved; spine-tipped, leaf- and dwarf-shoot-bearing branchlets lacking, rarely present. Leaf blades broadly or narrowly obovate, ovate, rhombic-ovate or elliptical, acute at apex, attenuate, cuneate PageBreakor rounded at base, deeply or shallowly and regularly lobed, rarely some leaves unlobed, lobes with an acute or obtuse apex, basal pair of veins divergent or straight, intercalary veins running to the sinuses usually present; upper surface dull, dark green, sparsely hairy especially along the veins, hairs appressed or semi-patent; lower surface dull, pale green, villous in the vein axils and occasionally along the major veins; margin regularly and ± coarsely or finely crenate-serrate or serrate, teeth eglandular or minutely glandular, glands less than 0.1 mm; petiole eglandular or rarely sparsely glandular, narrowly winged in upper part. Subterminal leaf blade of flowering shoots 25–70 mm long, 15–50 mm wide, deeply or shallowly and regularly lobed, rarely unlobed, lobes (0–)2–4 pairs, basal pair extending 0.2–0.8 times the width of lamina to midrib, each lobe with 5–18 teeth, basal pair of sinuses in apical 1/3 to basal 1/3 of lamina; petiole 5–15 mm long; stipules persistent or caducous, herbaceous, 5–12 mm long, irregularly or regularly glandular denticulate-serrate or serrate, with 4–30 teeth. Leaf blades of elongate shoots 40–90 mm long, 30–50 mm wide, deeply or shallowly and regularly lobed, lobes 1–4 pairs, basal pair extending 0.4–0.9 times the width of lamina to midrib, each lobe with 7–20 teeth, basal pair of sinuses in basal 1/2–1/5 of lamina; petiole 10–20 mm; stipules persistent or caducous, herbaceous, 6–14 mm long, regularly glandular denticulate-serrate or serrate, with 15–30 teeth. Inflorescence 2.5–5 cm long, lax, corymbose, 4–25-flowered, glabrous, rarely sparsely villous-lanate; pedicels 4–11 mm, glabrous, rarely sparsely villous-lanate; bracts caducous or very rarely persistent, membranous or herbaceous, 3–10 mm long, 0.2–2.5 mm wide, linear-lanceolate, 4–10 times as long as wide, regularly glandular-serrate or ± irregularly glandular-denticulate, with 4–22 teeth. Hypanthium 2–3 mm long, glabrous or rarely sparsely villous-lanate; sepals 1–2.5 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, triangular, 0.5–1.7 times as long as wide, entire or very rarely irregularly and minutely glandular-serrate, teeth 0–2, apex acute or obtuse; petals 4–6 mm long and wide; stamens 18–20, occasionally vestigial, anthers 0.6–1 mm long, purple; styles 2–5; hypostyle pilose. Fruit 6–9 mm long, 6–8 mm in diameter, 1–1.2 times as long as wide, globose-subglobose or broadly ellipsoidal, epruinose, ± lustrous, blackish purple or black, glabrous-subglabrous, crowned by the persistent, reflexed sepals; calyx tube indistinct, 0.4–1 mm long, 3.5–4.5 mm wide; flesh yellowish, soft and juicy; pyrenes 2–5, irregularly ventro-laterally pitted; hypostyle pilose. Phenology. Flowering in April–May. Fruiting in September. Some individuals strongly parthenocarpic. Reproductive biology. Sexual. 2n = 2x [≈ 34] (Talent and Dickinson 2005); diploid embryos and triploid endosperm. Chromosome number: 2n = 2x = 34, estimated from flow cytometry data (Table 4); chromosome counts have not been made. Distribution. Northwestern U.S.A.; western Oregon (Figure 5); potentially present in adjacent northwestern California and southwestern Washington where the parent species are sympatric. Etymology. honours the Cogswell family, and Mr. and Mrs. Lee Foster, of Halsey, Oregon. In 1872 John Cogswell, Mrs. Foster’s grandfather, purchased the land that the Fosters gave to the Oregon Nature Conservancy as the Cogswell-Foster Preserve (Lopez 1971), and at which has been most intensively studied (Love and Feigen 1978). Similar taxa. differs from in: leaf- and dwarf-shoot-bearing branchlets usually lacking; stipules of leaves of flowering shoots irregularly or regularly glandular denticulate-serrate or serrate (not ± entire); styles and pyrenes 2–5 (not 1–(2)); fruit blackish purple or black (not bright or dark red). differs from in: twigs of the current year occasionally sparsely villous-lanate; leaf- and dwarf-shoot-bearing branchlets occasionally present; leaf blades usually deeply or shallowly and regularly lobed, intercalary veins running to the sinuses usually present; inflorescence, pedicels and hypanthia occasionally sparsely villous-lanate; hypostyle pilose (not glabrous or sparsely pilose). Specimens examined, paratypes (in bold, specimens in Tables 2–4). U.S.A., Oregon: Columbia Co., Sauvie Island (OR11), 2003-06-14, Zika 18482 (TRT00002651!); 2005-08-31, Lo & Dickinson 103.2 (TRT00001918!), Lo 105.2 (TRT00001917!); Lane Co. Eugene, 1993-05-07, Love 9304 (TRT00002644!), 2003-05-13, Love C2003-12 (TRT00002646!), C2003-13 (TRT00002647!); 2003-06-01, Zika 19571 (TRT00001890!); Linn Co., Cogswell-Foster Preserve (OR1), 1987-04-7, 1987-04-27, 1987-09-20, Love 8707 (TRT00001895!, TRT00001907!, TRT00001912!), 8714 (TRT00001897!, TRT00001899!, TRT00002643!), 8715 (TRT00001901!, TRT00001902!, TRT00001910!), 8716 (TRT00001894!, TRT00001913!), 8717 (TRT00001900!, TRT00001909!), 8718 (TRT00002645!), 8719 (TRT00001893!, TRT00001905!, TRT00001906!), 8720 (TRT00001904!), 1993-05-18, Barbour, Evans & Love 93064 (TRT00001896!), 1997-07-27, Love 9726 (TRT00002196!); 2004-06-10, Lo, Dickinson & Nguyen 71 (TRT00002650!), 73 (TRT00002660!), 76 (TRT00002658!), 77 (TRT00002659!), 79 (TRT00002657!), 81 (TRT00002655!), 82 (TRT00002656!), 84 (TRT00002653!), 85 (TRT00002654!); 2009-09-03, Dickinson & Dickinson 2009-22 (TRT00002555!), 2009-23 (TRT00002556!), 2009-24 (TRT00002557!), 2009-28 (TRT00002560!), 2009-33 (TRT00002565!), 2009-34 (TRT00002566!), 2009-36 (TRT00002568!), 2009-38 (TRT00002570!), 2009-39 (TRT00002571!), 2009-41 (TRT00002573!), 2009-42 (TRT00002572!), 2009-43 (TRT00002575!); Marion Co., Salem, 2003-05-01, Zika 18296 (TRT00001889!). Washington: Clark Co., 2003-06-01, Zika 18431 (TRT00001891!).
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Journal:  AoB Plants       Date:  2019-06-04       Impact factor: 3.276

5.  Phylogeny of Crataegus (Rosaceae) based on 257 nuclear loci and chloroplast genomes: evaluating the impact of hybridization.

Authors:  Aaron Liston; Timothy A Dickinson; Kevin A Weitemier; Lucas Letelier; János Podani; Yu Zong; Lang Liu
Journal:  PeerJ       Date:  2021-10-26       Impact factor: 2.984

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