Thulin, M. (2006) Rosaceae in Flora of Somalia 3: 572
Plants herbs, shrubs, or trees, sometimes with spinescent branches. Leaves with stipules; stipules usually falling rapidly; blades simple or compound, toothed or lobed. Inflorescences various, sometimes in umbel-like clusters. Flowers radially symmetric, usually bisexual; hypanthia present, below or partly to wholly adnate to the ovaries; calyces with 5-sepals; corollas with 5 petals, attached to the hypanthia rims; stamens usually many, sometimes only 5; anthers yellow; ovaries inferior to superior, of separate carpels of 3-5 united carpels and the ovaries 3-5-celled; styles of compound ovaries sometiimes united at the base. Fruits simple, compound, or aggregate, simple fruits achenes, follicles, capsules, drupes.
The family Rosaceae ncludes about 92 genera and 2800 species. It is most abundant in termperate regions of the northern hemisphere. Many of its species are economically important. One of these, Malus, is known to be, or have been, cultivated in Somaliland. The cultivated species is Malus domestica.
