Majovskya

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plant}}

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|image = Majovskya sudetica syn. Sorbus sudetica Jarząb sudecki 2019-08-09 03.jpg

|image_caption = Fruits and leaves of Majovskya sudetica

|taxon = Majovskya

|authority = Sennikov & Kurtto

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Majovskya is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rosaceae.{{cite web |title=Majovskya Sennikov & Kurtto {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%377165084-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=16 July 2022 |language=en}}{{dead link|date=February 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} They are shrubs or small trees, they appear to have arisen via hybridization events between the clades Aria (Pers.) Host and Chamaemespilus (L.) Crantz.{{cite journal |last1=Sennikov |first1=A. N. |last2=Kurtto |first2=A. |title=A phylogenetic checklist of Sorbus s.l. (Rosaceae) in Europe |journal=Memoranda Societatis Pro Fauna et Flora Fennica |year=2017 |volume=93 |pages=1–78 }}

It is native to Europe and found in Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Poland, Spain and Switzerland.

Majovskya sudetica has also be found in Ukraine in 2020.{{cite web |last1=Mezhenskyj |first1=Volodymyr |title=Collecting sorboid plants for their horticultural merit and use in breeding work in Ukraine |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341273003 |access-date=16 July 2022 |date=May 2020}}

The genus name of Majovskya is in honour of Jozef Májovský (1920–2012), who was a Slovakian botanist and Professor of Botany in Bratislava. This was due to "the development of the taxonomy of hybridogenous Sorbus taxa in Slovakia".{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}} It was first described and published by Alexander Nikolaevitsch Sennikov and Arto Kurtto in Memoranda Soc. Fauna Fl. Fenn. vol.93 on page 63 in 2017.

The US Germplasm Resources Information Network calls Majovskya a synonym of ×Chamaearia {{small|Mezhenskyj}}, as while the name is legitimate, Majovskya is incorrect because ×Chamaearia should have priority (according to Shenzhen ICN 11.3).{{cite web |title=Genus ×Majovskya Sennikov & Kurtto |url=https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomygenus?id=30422 |access-date=16 July 2022}}