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Micromeles folgneri C.K.Schneid.

Rosaceae · China South-Central, China North-Central

English names not checked: Wikidata's common names were not read for this page.

No habitat climate
Photographs not checked iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not asked, or not answered, is not "none": nothing here claims there is none. Why the site says it this way.
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Summary

Alniaria folgneri (syn. Sorbus folgneri), Folgner's whitebeam, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae, native to central China. A small tree, the abaxial side of its soft leaves are covered in a silvery-white tomentose layer. Its autumn foliage often turns golden pink, set off by the white undersides, but the intensity of the color varies from year to year. Its cultivar 'Emiel' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Alniaria folgneri", CC BY-SA 4.0; its title is one of this species' older names (GBIF Backbone), which is the proof that the article is this species'.

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. 276 of the 277 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.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 3012534 (Sorbus folgneri (C.K.Schneid.) Rehder, 1259 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeChina South-Central, China North-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 marker30.6, 109.72 · in the densest population, 237 records (86% 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 277 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 134 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 7 km away. 35 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 276 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 3012534 (Sorbus folgneri (C.K.Schneid.) Rehder): Kew's file holds it as Sorbus folgneri (C.K.Schneid.) Rehder (synonym under Micromeles folgneri C.K.Schneid.); 1,259 records, from GBIF's download.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 277 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not a statement that none exist.

Other Micromeles 19 in the reference

Micromeles alnifolia Rosaceae Micromeles aronioides Rosaceae Micromeles brevipetiolata Rosaceae Micromeles caloneura Rosaceae Micromeles coronata Rosaceae Micromeles corymbifera Rosaceae Micromeles epidendron Rosaceae Micromeles globosa Rosaceae Micromeles granulosa Rosaceae Micromeles hedlundii Rosaceae Micromeles hemsleyi Rosaceae Micromeles lanata Rosaceae all 20 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Alniaria folgneri; Sorbus folgneri; Aria folgneri; Pyrus folgneri; Sorbus folgneri var. duplicatodentata and 3 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Rosaceae
Described by
C.K.Schneid.
Native to
China South-Central, China North-Central
Wild records
277 in range · 134 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
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Micromeles folgneri C.K.Schneid. (plant_name_id 2951692), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1259 records of GBIF's key 3012534, Sorbus folgneri (C.K.Schneid.) Rehder (Kew's file holds it as Sorbus folgneri (C.K.Schneid.) Rehder (synonym under Micromeles folgneri C.K.Schneid.)): the GBIF download; 4 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (4 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 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 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 726727-1, POWO 726727-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia redirects Micromeles folgneri to Alniaria folgneri, an older name of this species (Alniaria folgneri)
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 not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 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 16 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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