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Sorbus mandshurica trees or shrubs, 3-15m high; Bark grayish brown, nearly smooth; Branchlets, petioles and inflorescences are densely covered with brown or yellowish brown stellate villi. Leaves alternate, often densely whorled under inflorescence, ovoid, ovoid triangle or rhombic, 5-15cm long and 3-10cm wide, tapering at the top, cuneate or broadly cuneate at the base, nearly entire or undulate at the edge, and sometimes with 2 lobes or coarse teeth at the upper part; Young leaves are densely covered with yellow-brown or gray-white stellate villi on both sides, and there is no hair on the growing leaves; There are 5 basal veins, 3-4 lateral veins on each side, and the third level veinlets are transverse and parallel, and there are 2 black glands near the petiole at the base; Petiole slightly peltate, 2-15cm long. Flowers dioecious, inflorescence racemose or lower branched, terminal; Male inflorescence is 10-20 cm long; Bracts are ovate-lanceolate, about 2mm long, and the top is tapering; Male flowers are 2-6 in each bract; Buds are random or spherical; Pedicel is about 2 mm long; Calyx lobes 4-5, ovate, 2-2.5mm long, densely covered with stellate hairs outside; 50-60 stamens; Female inflorescence is 5-35cm long, and female flowers are 1-2 in each bract; Pedicel is about 1 mm long; Calyx lobes 4-5, long oval, 2-3mm long, unequal in size, densely covered with stellate villi outside; Ovary spherical, prickled by stellate hairs and prickles, 3 styles, slightly connate at the base, stigma 2-3mm long, and feathery at the back. The capsule is oblate, with obtuse triangular shape, 10-15mm in diameter, densely covered with brown fuzz and prickles, and the prickles are 4-6mm long and hairy; The seeds are nearly spherical, dark brown and often wrinkled. Flowering: July-October; Fruit: November-December.
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