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Santa Cruz Island manzanita

Twigs

sparsely short-hairy and densely glandular-hairy.

Leaf

blade surfaces ± finely tomentose, densely glandular-hairy, ± papillate abaxially.

Ovaries

white-hairy, sparsely glandular.

Immature

inflorescence axes densely glandular-hairy.

Arctostaphylos crustacea subsp. subcordata

Phenology Flowering winter–early spring.
Habitat Island chaparral
Elevation 100-600 m (300-2000 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Subspecies subcordata is known from Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa islands. Occasional mainland glandular-hairy individuals occur in mixed populations with subsp. crustacea and may key to subsp. subcordata.

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

Source FNA vol. 8, p. 442.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Arbutoideae > Arctostaphylos > Arctostaphylos crustacea
Sibling taxa
A. crustacea subsp. crinita, A. crustacea subsp. crustacea, A. crustacea subsp. eastwoodiana, A. crustacea subsp. insulicola, A. crustacea subsp. rosei
Synonyms A. subcordata, A. tomentosa subsp. subcordata
Name authority (Eastwood) V. T. Parker: Madroño 54: 152. (2007)
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