Arctostaphylos imbricata |
Arctostaphylos glandulosa |
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San Bruno Mountain manzanita |
Eastwood manzanita, Eastwood's manzanita |
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Habit | Shrubs, prostrate or mat- or mound-forming, 0.1–1 m; burl absent; twigs densely fine-hairy with long, gland-tipped hairs. | 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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Leaves | petiole to 2 mm; blade light green, dull, orbiculate to orbiculate-ovate, 2.5–4 × 2–3 cm, base auriculate-clasping, margins entire, plane, surfaces papillate, ± scabrous, sparsely glandular-hairy. |
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). |
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Inflorescences | panicles, 3–5-branched; immature inflorescence pendent, (branches densely clustered, ± sessile), axis 0.5–1 cm, 1+ mm diam., densely fine-hairy with long, gland-tipped hairs; bracts appressed, leaflike, ovate, 5–10 mm, apex acute, surfaces glandular-hairy. |
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. |
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Pedicels | 3–5 mm, densely glandular-hairy. |
3–10 mm, sparsely hairy to finely glandular-hairy. |
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Flowers | corolla white, urceolate; ovary densely glandular-hairy. |
corolla white to pink, conic to urceolate; ovary densely white-hairy, sometimes glandular. |
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Fruits | depressed-globose, 6–7 mm diam., glandular-hairy, (± viscid). |
slightly (or markedly) depressed-globose, 6–10 mm diam., glabrous or finely glandular-hairy, (viscid). |
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Stones | distinct. |
usually mostly distinct, sometimes connate. |
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2n | = 26. |
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Arctostaphylos imbricata |
Arctostaphylos glandulosa |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–early spring. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Maritime chaparral on sandstone outcroppings | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 100-200 m (300-700 ft) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
CA
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CA; OR; nw Mexico
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Discussion | Of conservation concern. Arctostaphylos imbricata occurs on San Bruno Mountain in San Mateo County. It is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 435. | FNA vol. 8, p. 442. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Arbutoideae > Arctostaphylos | Ericaceae > subfam. Arbutoideae > Arctostaphylos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | A. andersonii var. imbricata | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Name authority | Eastwood: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, 20: 149. 1931 , | Eastwood: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 3, 1: 82. 1897 , | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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