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Key to Pyracantha

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1 Leaf margins crenulate to serrulate for at least ½ the length of the blade.
  2 Leaf blades lanceolate, oblong, oblanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, elliptic, or ovate, the apices usually acute or short-apiculate; hypanthium and pedicels finely hairy
1 Leaf margins usually entire, rarely remotely serrulate and only towards the leaf apex.
    3 Calyces and leaf undersurfaces persistently gray-tomentose
    3 Calyces and leaf undersurfaces brown- or yellowish-puberulent when young, becoming glabrescent.
      4 Leaf blades widest near the middle (elliptic, oblong, or oblong-obovate); leaf apices obtuse, apiculate, or aristate; leaf undersurface glaucescent
      4 Leaf blades widest towards the tip (oblanceolate to oblong-obovate); leaf apices notched or truncate; leaf undersurface pale green but not glaucescent