Rosaceae

A. fenzliana (Fritsch) Lipsky in Acta Horti Petrop. 14:263 (1897). Syn: Primus fenzliana Fritsch in Sitz.-Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien 101:632 t. 2 (1892). Map 10, p. 27.
Shrub or small tree, up to 4 m; shoots subspinescent, glabrous. Leaves linear-elliptic, up to 8 x 2 cm; crenate-serrate, glabrous, leathery; petioles up to 15 mm. Flowers white or pink, 15-20 mm diam., subsessile. Drupe globose to oval, up to 25 x 15 mm, tomentose; stone compressed, with longitudinal grooves on either side of keel, also with grooved pits over the remaining surface. Fl. 4. 700-1800 m.
Type: a specimen cultivated in Vienna from 'in ditione Caucasi occidentalis Karabagh, Hohenacker' (vide Fritsch, op. cit, t. 2).
E. Anatolia. A8 Erzurum: 25 km N. of Tortum G., 700 m, D. 47652! A9 Kars: c. 50 km S. of Kars, 1540 m, M. Zohary &Plitm. 2267-33! B10 Kars: N.E. slope of Ağri Da., below Serdar Bulak, 1600 m, D. 43735! C10 Hakkari: Bacirge, 1700-1800 m, D. 45271!
Caucasia, N.W. Iran. Ir.-Tur. element (?).