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La Purisima manzanita, La Purissima manzanita

Eastwood manzanita, Eastwood's manzanita

Habit Shrubs, erect, 1–4 m; burl absent; twigs densely short-hairy with longer 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 bright green, shiny, orbiculate-ovate to ± orbiculate, 1–2.5 × 1–2 cm, base auriculate-clasping, margins entire, plane, surfaces smooth, glabrous.

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).

Inflorescences

racemes, simple or 1–2-branched;

immature inflorescence pendent, (branches dense, concealed by bracts), axis 0.5–1 cm, 1+ mm diam., densely short-hairy with longer hairs;

bracts not appressed, (overlapping), leaflike, ovate to lanceolate-ovate, 5–8 mm, apex acute, surfaces glabrous.

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.

Pedicels

3–5 mm, sparsely hairy or glabrous.

3–10 mm, sparsely hairy to finely glandular-hairy.

Flowers

corolla white, conic to urceolate;

ovary glabrous.

corolla white to pink, conic to urceolate;

ovary densely white-hairy, sometimes glandular.

Fruits

depressed-globose, 5–8 mm diam., glabrous.

slightly (or markedly) depressed-globose, 6–10 mm diam., glabrous or finely glandular-hairy, (viscid).

Stones

distinct.

usually mostly distinct, sometimes connate.

2n

= 26.

Arctostaphylos purissima

Arctostaphylos glandulosa

Phenology Flowering winter–early spring.
Habitat Maritime chaparral on deep, sandy soils
Elevation 0-100 m (0-300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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from FNA
CA; OR; nw Mexico
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Arctostaphylos purissima is known from hills and mesas near the coast (Burton Mesa) in Santa Barbara County.

(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.)

Key
1. Twigs, bracts, and/or immature inflorescence axes glandular-hairy
→ 2
1. Twigs, bracts, and immature inflorescence axes not glandular-hairy
→ 4
2. Leaf blades strongly white-glaucous.
subsp. leucophylla
2. Leaf blades green to gray-green, not glaucous to moderately glaucous
→ 3
3. Twigs glandular-hairy; immature inflorescences usually glandular-hairy.
subsp. glandulosa
3. Twigs not glandular-hairy; immature inflorescences glandular-hairy; (interior and eastern side of Santa Lucia Mountains).
subsp. howellii
4. Twigs short-hairy and with longer, white hairs.
subsp. mollis
4. Twigs short-hairy, not glandular-hairy
→ 5
5. Leaf blades strongly white-glaucous.
subsp. adamsii
5. Leaf blades dark green to moderately gray-green
→ 6
6. Stones mostly connate into single or weakly connate sphere.
subsp. gabrielensis
6. Stones usually distinct
→ 7
7. Leaf blades dark green (margins often reddish); fruits markedly flattened into depressed-globose shape.
subsp. crassifolia
7. Leaf blades green or gray-green; fruits only slightly flattened into depressed-globose shape.
subsp. cushingiana
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 434. FNA vol. 8, p. 442.
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. 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. 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. catalinae, A. columbiana, A. confertiflora, A. crustacea, A. cruzensis, A. densiflora, A. edmundsii, A. franciscana, A. gabilanensis, 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
Subordinate taxa
A. glandulosa subsp. adamsii, A. glandulosa subsp. crassifolia, A. glandulosa subsp. cushingiana, A. glandulosa subsp. gabrielensis, A. glandulosa subsp. glandulosa, A. glandulosa subsp. howellii, A. glandulosa subsp. leucophylla, A. glandulosa subsp. mollis
Name authority P. V. Wells: Madroño 19: 195. 1968 , Eastwood: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 3, 1: 82. 1897 ,
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