Taxon: Malus ioensis (Alph. Wood) Britton

Common names:

• Iowa crab apple   (Source: Cornucopia ) – English
  
• prairie crab apple   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  
• western crab apple   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• Prärie-Apfel   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Krussmann)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide L Edible Pl; Food Feed Crops US)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas [e.], Minnesota [s.e.], Missouri, Nebraska [e.], Oklahoma, South Dakota [s.e.], Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Arkansas, Kentucky [w.], Louisiana
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

References:

• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. (F Tex) [= Pyrus ionensis (A. A. Wood) L. H. Bailey].
• Dickson, E. E. et al. 1991. Isozymes in North American Malus (Rosaceae): hybridization and species differentiation. Syst. Bot. 16:363–375. [isozyme evidence supports inclusion in M. coronaria L.].
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14)
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. (Cornucopia)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. (Glea Cron ed2) [= Pyrus ionensis (A. A. Wood) L. H. Bailey].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2) [with two varieties].
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). (Krussmann)
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. (L Edible Pl)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Likhonos, F. D. 1974. A survey of the species in the genus Malus Mill. Trudy Prikl. Bot. 52:24. [= M. coronaria subsp. ioensis (A. A. Wood) Likhonos].
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. (Trees US)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs. (Rehder)
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri. (F Missouri) [= Pyrus ionensis (A. A. Wood) L. H. Bailey].
• Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Malus ioensis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Malus ioensis. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Malus ioensis var. texana Rehder
  
• (≡) Pyrus coronaria var. ioensis Alph. Wood (basionym)
  
• (=) Pyrus ioensis var. texana (Rehder) L. H. Bailey
  

Check other databases for Malus ioensis (Alph. Wood) Britton:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Malus ioensis cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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