Flora of North America species comparison

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Ornithostaphylos

Baja California or Baja birdbush, ornithostaphylos
Habit Shrubs, burled; bark sometimes reddish purple when young, thin, sometimes peeling.
Stems

erect, rigidly branched, minutely tomentose.
Leaves

opposite or whorled, bifacial;

blade linear to linear-oblong or narrowly lanceolate, coriaceous, margins entire, revolute, abaxial surface minutely tomentose, adaxial glabrous.
Inflorescences

panicles, 10–20-flowered.
Flowers

bisexual;

sepals persistent, (4–)5, connate to 1/2 their lengths, triangular;

petals (4–)5, connate 2/3–3/4 their lengths, white, corolla nearly globose to urceolate (sometimes widest proximally);

stamens 8–10, included, (equal);

filaments dilated near base;

anthers with awns, dehiscent by 2 slits;

ovary 5-locular;

stigma slightly capitate.
Drupes

brown or reddish brown, globose or nearly so, dry, smooth;

pyrenes 5, connate into solid, globose endocarp.
Seeds

10, connate.

Ornithostaphylos
Distribution
from USDA
nw Mexico; s Calif
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 1: s California, nw Mexico.

Species 1

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 403. Author: George M. Diggs Jr..
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Arbutoideae
Subordinate taxa
O. oppositifolia
Name authority Small: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 29: 101. 1914 ,
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