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Santa Catalina Island manzanita

Habit Shrubs or trees, erect, 2–5 m; burl absent; twigs densely glandular-hairy with long, white hairs.
Leaves

petiole 2–6 mm;

blade green-glaucescent, dull, lanceolate-ovate to elliptic, 2–5 × 1.5–3 cm, base truncate to ± slightly lobed, margins entire or ± serrate, plane, surfaces papillate, scabridulous, glandular-hispid.

Inflorescences

panicles, 4–10-branched;

immature inflorescence pendent, branches ± spreading, axis 2–3 cm, 1+ mm diam., densely glandular-hairy with long, white hairs;

bracts not appressed, (overlapping on distal 1/2, green), leaflike, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 6–10(–15) mm, apex acute, surfaces sparsely glandular-hairy.

Pedicels

2–5 mm, densely white-hairy.

Flowers

corolla white, conic to urceolate;

ovary densely white-hairy, sparsely glandular-hairy.

Fruits

globose, 8–15 mm diam., sparsely hairy.

Stones

distinct.

2n

= 26.

Arctostaphylos catalinae

Phenology Flowering winter–early spring.
Habitat Chaparral, open woodlands
Elevation 0-500 m (0-1600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Arctostaphylos catalinae is known from Santa Catalina Island.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 8, p. 427.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Arbutoideae > Arctostaphylos
Sibling taxa
A. andersonii, A. auriculata, A. bakeri, A. canescens, A. columbiana, A. confertiflora, A. crustacea, A. cruzensis, A. densiflora, A. edmundsii, A. franciscana, A. gabilanensis, A. glandulosa, A. glauca, A. glutinosa, A. hispidula, A. hookeri, A. hooveri, A. imbricata, A. insularis, A. klamathensis, A. luciana, A. malloryi, A. manzanita, A. mewukka, A. montana, A. montaraensis, A. montereyensis, A. morroensis, A. myrtifolia, A. nevadensis, A. nissenana, A. nortensis, A. nummularia, A. obispoensis, A. ohloneana, A. osoensis, A. otayensis, A. pacifica, A. pajaroensis, A. pallida, A. parryana, A. patula, A. pechoensis, A. pilosula, A. pringlei, A. pumila, A. pungens, A. purissima, A. rainbowensis, A. refugioensis, A. regismontana, A. rudis, A. sensitiva, A. silvicola, A. stanfordiana, A. tomentosa, A. uva-ursi, A. virgata, A. viridissima, A. viscida
Name authority P. V. Wells: Madroño 19: 193. 1968 ,
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