| Cotoneaster niger (Wahlb.) Fr. | |
| Publ. & Syn. | Cotoneaster melanocarpus auct., non Lodd. (1829). |
| Notes | Orlova (1959) mapped Cotoneaster niger from arctic localities north of Ponoj in the Murman area and Kobeleva (1976b) from the arctic or near-arctic parts of Kanin-Pechora. Fryer and Hylmö (2009) restricted C. niger to "Scandinavia (excluding Finland)" which must mean that they excluded the Russian plants from this species. They did not report any species of series Melanocarpi from the northernmost parts of European Russia. We therefore do not know to what species the arctic Russian plants belong. Cotoneaster melanocarpus was described on garden material, probably from the Dniepropetrovsk area, is based on a lectotype (GB) from the Lvov area (see Fryer and Hylmö 2009), and is reported to be restricted to Ukraina. The name has been applied to the northern plants but is probably irrelevant for these if the species circumscriptions of Fryer and Hylmö are accepted. Loddiges' C. melanocarpus was a nomen nudum (Loddiges, Bot. Cab. 16: 1531; 1829) but this name was validated by Blytt, Enum. Pl. Vasc. Chra.: 22 (1844), the year before the name C. niger was published. |
| Chromosomes | 68 (4x). - Sax (1954); Gladkova (1967, 1968); Kroon (1975). |
| Geography | European - Asian (N/C): RUS. |
| Distribution | N = S E = R FN = r KP = r [ key ] |
| Parent taxon | Cotoneaster Medik. |
| PAF ID | 641902 |