Eriobotrya averyanovii, a new name for E. integrifolia Averyanov (Rosaceae)

Abstract

The genus Eriobotrya Lindley (1821: 96) (Rosaceae, Jussieu 1789), comprises of ca. 36 taxa in East Asia, Indochina, the Himalayas, Western Malaysia (Vidal 1965, Pham 2000, Kalkman 2004, Yang et al. 2005, Idrees et al. 2018). In the flora of China, 20 species were reported (Gu & Spongberg 2003, Yang & Lin 2007, Li et al. 2012, Ding et al. 2015), with a further three species (endemic) recently described from Yunnan, and Myanmar (Chen et al. 2020, Idrees et al. 2020, Kang et al. 2021). All species are trees or shrubs, and of economic importance for use as ornamentals, edible fruit or timber, as well as medicinal plants (Seth 2003).