Five new records and two new reports of Cotoneaster Medik. (Rosaceae) for the Flora of Iran Author Niaki, Nemat Allah Raei Central Herbarium of Tehran University, School of Biology, College of Science, University of Tehran (Iran) raeiniaki_n@yahoo.com Author Attar, Farideh Central Herbarium of Tehran University, School of Biology, College of Science, University of Tehran (Iran) Author Zamani, Asghar Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Guilan, Rasht (Iran) Author Maroofi, Hossein Research Center of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Kurdistan Province, PO Box 66169 - 36311 - 714 (Iran) Author Joharchi, Mohammad Reza Research Center for Plant Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (Iran) text Adansonia 2022 3 2022-05-17 44 14 141 152 journal article 55446 10.5252/adansonia2022v44a14 21ba8a38-e941-4c3f-b9ce-c0e8b651b092 1639-4798 6573109 Cotoneaster meyeri Pojark. ( Fig. 7 ) Botanicheskogo Instituta Imeni V. L. Komarova Akademii Nauk SSSR , Leningrad [St. Petersburg] 17: 185 ( Pojarkova 1955 ) . TYPUS . — Azarbaijan . In vicinitate urbis Kirovabad ( Gandsha ) ad ripam dextram fluvii Kjurai-Czai s.d. , Pojarkova 289 (holo-, LE ) . SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — Iran . Province East Azerbaijan , Arasbaran protected area, Kalaleh village , Soulidareh , 38°57’1”N , 46°44’4”E , 800 m , 26.VII.1993 , Ghahremani & Talebpur 2770 ( Herbarium of Tabriz ). — Province Mazandaran , 7 km after Pole-Zanguleh to Chalus , 36°13’28”N , 51°18’18”E , 2028 m , 24. V .2016, Raei Niaki & Mahdigholi 46883 ( TUH ) . REMARK C. meyeri is reported from north Iran in Mazandaran province ( Fig. 7A ). The species belongs to subgenus Chaenopetalum ( Fryer & Hylmö 2009 ). This species is related to C. multiflorus Bunge ( Browicz 1972 ) , from which it differs for its black-purple fruits (vs light red to red), acute to obtuse (vs obtuse to rounded) and shorter leaves ( 15- 39 mm vs 20-55 mm ), fewer- flowered inflorescence (5-8 vs 5-13) and indumentum of pedicel in fruit (glabrous vs thinly tomentose) ( Fig. 7B ). The geographical distribution of the species is Afghanistan , Tajikistan , Kyrgyzstan , Azerbaijan ( Riedl 1969 ; Pojarkova 1971 ; Fryer & Hylmö 2009 ) and Iran . NOTE C. meyeri was not previously reported from the flora of Iran ( Riedl 1969 ). Later, this species was reported there without locality information ( Fryer & Hylmö 2009 ). In the framework of this paper, this species was collected again, and it is reported for Flora of Iran .