Taxonomic history
In 1901, Charles Sprague Sargent chose a lectotype for ''Crataegus coccinea'' from among Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus's specimens, but chose a specimen that resembles ''C. dodgei'' Ashe. Sargent's lectotype opinion was followed by other authors until he realized his error and corrected it in 1909. The name ''C. coccinea'' has also been misapplied to specimens of ''Crataegus intricata, C. intricata'' Lange. For almost 100 years, particularly since 1910, this species was generally called ''Crataegus pedicellata'' Sarg. except by a few authors. Linnaeus's original description was inadequate to make a decision between various unrelated species, including ''C. nigra'', ''C. phaenopyrum'', and ''C. mollis''. A component of the 2003 lectotype decision was that John Claudius Loudon had founded series ''Coccineae'' on ''C. coccinea'', which includes ''C. pedicellata'', to which Linnaeus's specimen 187 of the Clifford Herbarium (now at the British Museum) is considered to belong. With this taxonomy, ''C. pedicellata'' Sarg. is a heterotypic synonym of ''C. coccinea'' L.References
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