Maloideae
{{Taxobox
color = lightgreen | name = Maloideae | image = Malus sikkimensis0.jpg | image_width = 250px | image_caption = Malus sikkimensis fruit | regnum = Plantae | divisio = Magnoliophyta | classis = Magnoliopsida | ordo = Rosales | familia = Rosaceae | subfamilia = Maloideae | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = Amelanchier - serviceberry, juneberry
Aronia - chokeberry
Chaenomeles - Japanese quince
Cotoneaster - cotoneaster
Crataegus - hawthorn
Cydonia - quince
Eriobotrya - loquat
Eriolobus = Malus pro parte
Heteromeles - Toyon
Holodiscus
Malus - apple, crabapple
Mespilus - medlar
Osteomeles
Photinia
Pseudocydonia
Pyracantha - firethorn
Pyrus - pear
Rhaphiolepis - hawthorn
Sorbus - rowan, whitebeam, service tree
Stranvaesia = Photinia pro parte
The Maloideae (apple subfamily) is a subfamily of the rose family Rosaceae characterised in its traditional description by the possession of a pome, a type of accessory fruit, and by a basal haploid chromosome count of 17. These plants are shrubs and small trees. The group includes a number of plants bearing commercially important fruits, like apples and pears.
More recent taxonomic proposals expand Maloideae to include a number of herbaceous genera that are more closely related to the traditional Maloideae than to other species of Rosaceae. These are the genera Kageneckia, Lindleya, and Vauquelinia, which have a haploid chromosome count of 15 or 17 but bear fruits that are capsules, and the genus, Gillenia, which has a haploid chromosome count of 9.
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