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Malus delavayi (Franch.) B.B.Liu

Rosaceae · China South-Central

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Malus delavayi (Franch.) B.B.Liu: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, (Franch.).

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About the genus · Malus

Malus is a genus of about 32–57 species of small deciduous trees or shrubs in the rose family Rosaceae. It includes the domesticated orchard apple, crabapples, and wild apples.

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 25 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 25 of the 25 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 · 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 marker25.296, 98.8 · in the densest population, 15 records (60% 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 25 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 3 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 25 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.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 12317224 (Malus delavayi (Liu, Ma, Xu, Huang, Ge, Luo, Wei & Liu, 2023) B.B.Liu, 2023): Kew's file holds it as Malus delavayi (Franch.) B.B.Liu (accepted); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 25 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: Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Malus 31 in the reference

Malus angustifolia Malus angustifolia Southern crab apple Photo: CC0, author not statedMalus asiatica Malus asiatica Chinese Pearleaf Crabapple Photo: CC BY-SA, Łukasz SzczurowskiMalus baccata Malus baccata Siberian crabapple Photo: CC0, author not statedMalus coronaria Malus coronaria Sweet crab apple Photo: CC BY, Skyler PrincipeMalus × dasyphylla Malus × dasyphylla Paradise Apple Photo: CC BY-SA, Stefan.lefnaerMalus domestica Malus domestica Apple Photo: CC BY, Alexander DubyninMalus doumeri Malus doumeri Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, Jacy Chen Malus florentina Rosaceae Malus × floribunda Malus × floribunda Japanese crab Photo: CC BY, Owen and Carol Fawcett.Malus fusca Malus fusca Oregon crab apple Photo: CC0, author not statedMalus halliana Malus halliana Hall crab apple Photo: CC BY, Jo Roberts Malus honanensis Honan Crab Apple all 32 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Cotoneaster bodinieri; Cydonia delavayi; Docynia delavayi; Eriolobus delavayi; Pyrus delavayi. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Rosaceae
Described by
(Franch.) B.B.Liu
Native to
China South-Central
Wild records
25 in range · 25 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 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 12240826 is Malus delavayi (Franch.) ; the page links Kew's Malus delavayi (Franch.) B.B.Liu, and the name is cited as Kew cites it
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 0 records of GBIF's key 12317224, Malus delavayi (Liu, Ma, Xu, Huang, Ge, Luo, Wei & Liu, 2023) B.B.Liu, 2023 (Kew's file holds it as Malus delavayi (Franch.) B.B.Liu (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search API; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2225 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Malus delavayi (Franch.) B.B.Liu (no item's number)
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 8 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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