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Gabilan manzanita, Gabilan Mountains manzanita

Habit Shrubs or trees, erect, 1–5 m; burl absent; twigs sparsely short-hairy with sessile glands among hairs.
Leaves

petiole 1–4 mm;

blade gray-glaucous, dull, ovate, 1.5–3.5 × 1.1–2.4 cm, base distinctly lobed, auriculate-clasping, margins entire, plane, surfaces smooth, canescent, glabrescent.

Inflorescences

panicles, 1–4-branched;

immature inflorescence pendent, branches spreading, axis 1–3 cm, 1+ mm diam., sparsely short-hairy with sessile glands among hairs;

bracts not appressed, (spreading), scalelike (lowermost leaflike), deltate, 3–5 mm, (fleshy), apex mucronate, surfaces hairy.

Pedicels

8–10 mm, hairy or glabrous.

Flowers

corolla white to pink, conic to urceolate;

ovary glabrous, (not viscid).

Fruits

globose, 10–15 mm diam., glabrous, (not viscid).

Stones

connate into single sphere.

2n

= 26.

Arctostaphylos gabilanensis

Phenology Flowering winter–early spring.
Habitat Chaparral on decomposing granites
Elevation 300-700 m (1000-2300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Arctostaphylos gabilanensis is known from two disjunct populations in the Gabilan Mountains, San Benito and Monterey counties.

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

Source FNA vol. 8, p. 431.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Arbutoideae > Arctostaphylos
Sibling taxa
A. andersonii, A. auriculata, A. bakeri, A. canescens, A. catalinae, A. columbiana, A. confertiflora, A. crustacea, A. cruzensis, A. densiflora, A. edmundsii, A. franciscana, 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 V. T. Parker & M. C. Vasey: Madroño 51: 322, fig. 1. 2004 ,
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