Eriobotrya

2025-10-30T22:57:19Z

98.13.146.147: As I'm typing this, Eriobotrya is an accepted genus in POWO

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|image = Eriobotrya japonica SZ97.png
|image_caption = ''Eriobotrya japonica''
|display_parents = 3
|taxon = Eriobotrya
|authority = [[John Lindley|Lindl.]]
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision = See text<ref>[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_genus=Eriobotrya&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=on&output_format=normal International Plant Names Index | Search : Eriobotrya]</ref>
|type_species=''[[Eriobotrya japonica]]''
}}

'''''Eriobotrya''''' is a [[genus]] of [[flowering plant]]s, mostly large [[evergreen]] [[shrub]]s and small [[tree]]s, in the [[family (biology)|family]] Rosaceae, [[native plant|native]] to woodland in the Himalayas and East Asia. The [[loquat]], ''E. japonica'', is grown for its edible fruit.<ref name=RHSAZ>{{cite book|title=RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants|year=2008|publisher=Dorling Kindersley|location=United Kingdom|isbn=978-1405332965|pages=1136}}</ref>

''Eriobotrya'' species are used as food plants by the [[larva]]e of some [[Lepidoptera]] species including ''[[Hypercompe hambletoni]]''.

==Species==
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! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !!Distribution
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|[[File:雲南枇杷 Eriobotrya bengalensis -昆明世博園 Kunming Expo Garden, China- (9237502705).jpg|120px]] ||''[[Eriobotrya bengalensis]]'' {{small|Hook. f.}} ||||India, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, China (Guizhou and Yunnan)
|-
| ||''[[Eriobotrya cavaleriei]]'' {{small|(H. Lév.) Rehder}} |||| China and Vietnam
|-
|[[File:Eriobotryadeflexa.jpg|120px]] ||''[[Eriobotrya deflexa]]'' {{small|(Hemsl.) Nakai}} ||Bronze Loquat||China, Taiwan and Vietnam
|-
| ||''[[Eriobotrya dubia]]'' {{small|Decne.}} |||| India, Bhutan and Nepal
|-
| ||''[[Eriobotrya elliptica]]'' {{small|Lindl.}}|||| Nepal, China (Xizang) and Vietnam
|-
| ||''[[Eriobotrya fragrans]]'' {{small|Champ. ex Benth.}}|||| China and Vietnam
|-
| ||''[[Eriobotrya henryi]]'' {{small|Nakai}}|||| Myanmar, China (Guizhou and Yunnan) and Vietnam
|-
| ||''[[Eriobotrya hookeriana]]'' {{small|Decne.}} |||| Sikkim, Bhutan and Nepal
|-
|[[File:Nespole MG 6604.jpg|120px]] ||''[[Eriobotrya japonica]]'' {{small|(Thunb.) Lindl.}}||Loquat|| Japan, China and Vietnam
|-
| ||''[[Eriobotrya malipoensis]]'' {{small|Kuan}}|||| China (Yunnan)
|-
| ||''[[Eriobotrya obovata]]'' {{small|W.W. Sm.}}|||| China (Yunnan)
|-
| ||''[[Eriobotrya petiolata]]'' {{small|Hook. f.}} |||| Bhutan and Sikkim
|-
| ||''[[Eriobotrya prinoides]]'' {{small|Rehder & E. H. Wilson}} ||||China (Sichuan and Yunnan) and Laos
|-
| ||''[[Eriobotrya salwinensis]]'' {{small|Hand.-Mazz.}}|||| China (Yunnan), India, Myanmar
|-
| ||''[[Eriobotrya seguinii]]'' {{small|(H. Lév.) Cardot ex Guill. }}|||| China (Guizhou and Yunnan) and Vietnam
|-
| ||''[[Eriobotrya serrata]]'' {{small|J.E. Vidal}}|||| China (Guangxi, Yunnan), Laos and Vietnam
|-
| ||''[[Eriobotrya tengyuehensi]]'' {{small|W.W. Sm.}}|||| China (Yunnan), Myanmar
|-
|}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline |Eriobotrya |''Eriobotrya''}}
* {{Wikispecies-inline |Eriobotrya |''Eriobotrya''}}
* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=112012 Flora of China]

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