Crataegus sphaenophylla, Pojark.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 76

15. C. sphaenophylla Pojark. in Komarov, Fl. URSS 9: 502 (1939).

Unarmed shrub; twigs reddish-brown, villous, becoming glabrous and pruinose. Leaves 30-50 x 20-30 mm, coriaceous, villous but glabrescent, obovate-cuneate, the upper part with 3 lobes; lobes extending | to | way to the midrib, the middle lobe wide, incise-serrate, the laterals narrower, acute, serrate; petiole 10-25 mm; stipules falcate-lanceolate, entire. Hypanthium and pedicels densely tomentose; flowers 10-15 mm in diameter. Style 1. Fruit 10-14 x 9-12 mm, red but pruinose, crowned by patent sepals; pyrenes 1. Scrub on hills. • Krym. Rs (K).

C. dipyrena Pojark. , op. cit. 508 (1939), from Krym, is probably a hybrid between 15 and 16. It differs from 15 by the less pubescent, 5- to 7-lobed, ovate or rhombic leaves, less tomentose hypanthium and pedicels, and deep red or purplish-black fruit with usually 2 pyrenes.