Arctostaphylos glandulosa |
Arctostaphylos mewukka |
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Eastwood manzanita, Eastwood's manzanita |
Indian manzanita |
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Habit | Shrubs, erect or mound-forming, 1–3 m; burl present; twigs tomentose to short-hairy, with eglandular hairs or with long, clear, pink or dark, glandular hairs. | Shrubs, erect, 1–3 m; burl present or absent; twigs glabrous or slightly hairy and sparsely glandular. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Leaves | petiole 5–10 mm; blade bright green, slightly glaucous to strongly gray-glaucous, shiny or dull, elliptic to ovate, 2–4.5 × 1–2.5 cm, base cuneate to rounded, sometimes ± lobed or truncate, margins entire or toothed, plane, surfaces papillate, scabrous or smooth, glabrous or glandular-puberulent to -hairy, puberulent, or finely tomentose, sometimes glabrescent; (abaxial surface sometimes with more stomata than adaxial surface). |
petiole 6–15 mm; blade intensely gray- or white-glaucous, dull, orbiculate, orbiculate-ovate, oblong-ovate, or lanceolate-ovate, 3–7 × 2–7 cm, base rounded, margins entire, plane, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces smooth, glabrous. |
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Inflorescences | panicles, 3–6-branched; immature inflorescence pendent, (branches crowded, not concealed by bracts), axis 1–3 cm, 1+ mm diam., short-hairy to hairy, with or without glandular hairs; bracts not appressed, variable, from scalelike and awl-like to leaflike and deltate, lanceolate, or broadly lanceolate (at least at base), 3–10 mm, apex acute, surfaces hairy or finely glandular-hairy. |
panicles, 2–7-branched; immature inflorescence pendent, axis 2–3 cm, 1+ mm diam., glabrous or slightly hairy, sometimes glandular; bracts tightly appressed, scalelike, deltate to linear-lanceolate, 3–6 mm, apex acute or acuminate, surfaces glabrous. |
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Pedicels | 3–10 mm, sparsely hairy to finely glandular-hairy. |
4–8 mm, glabrous. |
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Flowers | corolla white to pink, conic to urceolate; ovary densely white-hairy, sometimes glandular. |
corolla white, conic to urceolate; ovary glabrous. |
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Fruits | slightly (or markedly) depressed-globose, 6–10 mm diam., glabrous or finely glandular-hairy, (viscid). |
(dark mahogany-brown), globose, 12–16 mm diam., glabrous. |
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Stones | usually mostly distinct, sometimes connate. |
distinct, sometimes connate. |
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Arctostaphylos glandulosa |
Arctostaphylos mewukka |
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Distribution |
CA; OR; nw Mexico
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CA
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Discussion | Subspecies 10 (8 in the flora). Arctostaphylos glandulosa occurs in the California Floristic Province from southern Oregon to northern Baja California within the Coast, Transverse, and Peninsular ranges. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). Arctostaphylos mewukka is found on the western slopes of the central and northern Sierra Nevada. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 442. | FNA vol. 8, p. 421. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Arbutoideae > Arctostaphylos | Ericaceae > subfam. Arbutoideae > Arctostaphylos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Name authority | Eastwood: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 3, 1: 82. 1897 , | Merriam: Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 31: 101, plates 2, 3. 1918 , | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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