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Gabilan manzanita, Gabilan Mountains manzanita

Santa Catalina Island manzanita

Habit Shrubs or trees, erect, 1–5 m; burl absent; twigs sparsely short-hairy with sessile glands among hairs. Shrubs or trees, erect, 2–5 m; burl absent; twigs densely glandular-hairy with long, white 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.

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, 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.

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

8–10 mm, hairy or glabrous.

2–5 mm, densely white-hairy.

Flowers

corolla white to pink, conic to urceolate;

ovary glabrous, (not viscid).

corolla white, conic to urceolate;

ovary densely white-hairy, sparsely glandular-hairy.

Fruits

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

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

Stones

connate into single sphere.

distinct.

2n

= 26.

= 26.

Arctostaphylos gabilanensis

Arctostaphylos catalinae

Phenology Flowering winter–early spring. Flowering winter–early spring.
Habitat Chaparral on decomposing granites Chaparral, open woodlands
Elevation 300-700 m (1000-2300 ft) 0-500 m (0-1600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
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.)

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. 431. FNA vol. 8, p. 427.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Arbutoideae > Arctostaphylos 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
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 V. T. Parker & M. C. Vasey: Madroño 51: 322, fig. 1. 2004 , P. V. Wells: Madroño 19: 193. 1968 ,
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