Prunus phaeosticta

Prunus phaeosticta, the dark-spotted cherry, is a species of plant native to China, Taiwan, and southeast Asia, including far eastern India, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. It gets its specific epithet and its common name from the small dark spots (glands) on the undersides of its leaves.^[1] Formosan rock macaques (Macaca cyclopis) eat the fruit.^[2][3]

Prunus phaeosticta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Rosaceae
Genus:	Prunus
Section:	P. sect. Laurocerasus
Species:	P. phaeosticta
Binomial name
Prunus phaeosticta (Hance) Maxim.
Synonyms
List Cerasus punctata Hook.fil. & Thoms. Laurocerasus phaeosticta (Hance) C.K.Schneid. Lauro-cerasus phaeosticta (Hance) C.K.Schneid. Prunus edentata Hand.-Mazz. Prunus punctata Hook. f. & Thomson Prunus xerocarpa Hemsl. Pygeum phaeosticta Hance Pygeum phaeostictum Hance

Subspecies and forms

A widespread species, it displays variety in its morphology, leading to a number of described putative subspecies, varieties and forms.^{[citation needed]}

• P. phaeosticta f. pubipedunculata T.T. Yu & L.T. Lu
• P. phaeosticta f. ciliospinosa
• P. phaeosticta f. dentigera Rehder
• P. phaeosticta f. lasioclada Rehder
• P. phaeosticta f. phaeosticta
• P. phaeosticta f. puberula (Yü & Lu) Q.H.Chen
• P. phaeosticta subsp. ilicifolia (Hance) Maxim.
• P. phaeosticta subsp. phaeosticta
• P. phaeosticta var. ancylocarpa
• P. phaeosticta var. dimorphophylla
• P. phaeosticta var. promeccocarpa