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Prunus elaeagrifolia
Prunus elaeagrifolia (Persian: ارژن) is a species of wild almond native to Iran. It is shrub or small tree 3-4 m tall, with the gray bark of its older twigs peeling in places and showing a brownish-yellow underbark. Its leaves are densely pubescent, with the pubescence yellowish gray.[2] It is mostly found in the southern portion of the Zagros Mountains, where in places it is one of the dominant tree species. Its 2n=16 chromosomes have karyotypic formula 7m+t.[3][4] TaxonomyThe species was first described by Édouard Spach in 1843 as Amygdalus elaeagrifolia.[5] Spach repeated this spelling of the epithet in Jaubert's Illustrationes plantarum orientalium, which he helped to edit.[citation needed] The epithet appears to be derived from elaeagros, the wild olive, and thus means 'wild olive-leaved'.[6] Subsequent writers seem to have thought he had made a typographic error, and so wrongly "corrected" the epithet to elaeagnifolia,[5][6] meaning 'with leaves like Elaeagnus'. In 1892, Karl Fritsch transferred the species from Amygdalus to Prunus, spelling the epithet as "elaeagnifolia" rather than Spach's elaeagrifolia.[7] As of October 2021[update], some sources have followed Fritsch, calling the species Prunus "elaeagnifolia" rather than Prunus elaeagrifolia,[8] whereas the International Plant Names Index supported the use of elaeagrifolia.[1] References
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