Crataegus coccinea

Crataegus coccinea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Rosaceae
Genus:	Crataegus
Series:	Coccineae (Loudon) Rehder[1]
Species:	C. coccinea
Binomial name
Crataegus coccinea L.

Crataegus coccinea (common name, Scarlet Hawthorn) is a species of Hawthorn around which there is considerable confusion because the name has been misapplied for a long time^[1]. It has been shown to be the same as C. pedicellata^[1], and under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, that older name (C. coccinea) should be used.

References and external links

1. ^ ^{a b c} *Phipps JB, Cafferty S, Macklin JA (2003) Lectotypification of Crataegus coccinea L. and its conspecificity with C. pedicellata Sarg. (Rosaceae). Taxon 52: 337–338

• information about C. pedicellata from Plants for a Future
• information about C. pedicellata from Evergreen Native Plants
• Crataegus pedicellata picture at www.sci.muni.cz