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Amelanchier sinica (C.K.Schneid.) Chun

Chinese Serviceberry

Rosaceae · China South-Central, China North-Central +1

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Summary

Amelanchier sinica, commonly known as the Chinese serviceberry, is a serviceberry native to China. Its fruit, a pome, is dark-blue when it ripens. Plants are found in Henan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Hubei, Sichuan provinces of China at elevations of 1000--2000 meters.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Amelanchier sinica", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Amelanchier

Amelanchier, also known as shadbush, shadwood or shadblow, serviceberry or sarvisberry, juneberry, saskatoon, sugarplum, wild-plum or chuckley pear, is a genus of about 20 species of deciduous-leaved shrubs and small trees in the rose family (Rosaceae) that produce a pome fruit.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Amelanchier", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 91 of the 92 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker31.37, 109.63 · in the densest population, 64 records (70% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 92 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 38 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 17 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 91 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 92 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Salicyna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (6).

Other Amelanchier 17 in the reference

Amelanchier alnifolia Amelanchier alnifolia Pacific serviceberry Photo: CC BY, Gavin Slater Amelanchier amabilis Rosaceae Amelanchier arborea Amelanchier arborea Downy serviceberry Photo: CC0, author not statedAmelanchier asiatica Amelanchier asiatica Asian serviceberry Photo: CC BY-SA, KENPEIAmelanchier bartramiana Amelanchier bartramiana Mountain serviceberry Photo: CC0, author not statedAmelanchier canadensis Amelanchier canadensis Canadian serviceberry Photo: CC0, author not statedAmelanchier humilis Amelanchier humilis Low serviceberry Photo: CC0, author not statedAmelanchier interior Amelanchier interior Inland serviceberry Photo: CC BY, Ryan SorrellsAmelanchier intermedia Amelanchier intermedia Purple serviceberry Photo: CC BY, Daniel CarrAmelanchier laevis Amelanchier laevis Allegheny serviceberry Photo: CC BY, Blake RossAmelanchier × lamarckii Amelanchier × lamarckii Juneberry Photo: CC BY-SA, nicolas meyerAmelanchier nantucketensis Amelanchier nantucketensis Nantucket shadbush Photo: CC BY, Jake McCumber all 18 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Amelanchier asiatica var. sinica. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Rosaceae
Described by
(C.K.Schneid.) Chun
Native to
China South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast
Wild records
92 in range · 38 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 11 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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