Arctostaphylos gabilanensis |
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Gabilan manzanita, Gabilan Mountains manzanita |
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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 |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–early spring. |
Habitat | Chaparral on decomposing granites |
Elevation | 300-700 m (1000-2300 ft) |
Distribution |
CA |
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. |
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Name authority | V. T. Parker & M. C. Vasey: Madroño 51: 322, fig. 1. 2004 , |
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