Ribes roezlii |
Ribes viburnifolium |
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shiny-leaf gooseberry, Sierra gooseberry, Sierran gooseberry |
Catalina currant, evergreen currant, island gooseberry, Santa Catalina Island currant |
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Habit | Plants 0.5–1.2 m. Stems erect, pubescent; spines at nodes 1–3, 4–8 mm; prickles on internodes absent. | Plants evergreen, 0.5–1 m. Stems erect or arched (no short shoots), with white, sessile, resinous glands; spines at nodes absent; prickles on internodes absent. | ||||||||
Leaves | petiole 0.6–1.8 cm, pubescent; blade roundish, 3–5-lobed, cleft 1/3–3/4 to midrib, 1.2–2.5 cm, base truncate to cordate, surfaces glabrous, softly ciliate, or puberulent or densely hoary-pubescent, not glandular abaxially, puberulent adaxially, lobes rounded, margins toothed, apex rounded. |
petiole 0.3–1 cm, strigillose and with yellow or white, sessile glands; blade ovate to obovate, unlobed, 2–4 cm, base truncate, margins shallowly toothed, sometimes undulate, apex rounded, surfaces with yellow, sessile glands abaxially, glabrous adaxially. |
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Inflorescences | pendent, solitary flowers or 2-flowered racemes, 2–4 cm, axis short-pubescent, stipitate-glandular. |
erect, 6–15-flowered racemes, 1.5–5 cm, axis glandular, flowers evenly spaced. |
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Pedicels | not jointed, 1–2 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular; bracts broadly ovate, 4–5 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular. |
jointed, 2–5 mm, glandular; bracts narrowly lanceolate, 2–3.5 mm, glandular. |
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Flowers | hypanthium maroon, narrowly tubular, 6 mm (1/2 as long as sepals), glabrous, puberulent, or densely hoary-pubescent, not stipitate-glandular; sepals not overlapping, reflexed, maroon, lanceolate, 7–10 mm; petals connivent, erect, white, oblong, inrolled, 3–5 mm; nectary disc not prominent; stamens 1.5–2 times as long as petals; filaments linear, 4–5 mm, glabrous; anthers maroon, lanceolate, somewhat sagittate, 3–4 mm, apex apiculate; ovary white-hairy and bristly, a few bristles gland-tipped; styles connate nearly to middle, 9–11 mm, glabrous. |
hypanthium reddish, turbinate, 2–5 mm, glabrous, sessile-glandular; sepals not overlapping, spreading, reddish, triangular to broadly deltate-ovate, 2–3 mm; petals widely separated, erect, reddish brown, oblong to oblong-obovate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 2 mm; nectary disc prominent, reddish to reddish brown, 5-angled, completely covering top of ovary; stamens nearly as long as petals; filaments linear, 2 mm, glabrous; anthers white, oval, 0.1 mm, apex with small cuplike depression; ovary sparsely sessile-glandular; styles connate 1/2 their lengths, 1 mm,glabrous. |
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Berries | palatable, purple, globose, 14–25 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular, longer hairs not gland-tipped, with long, stout, glandular or eglandular spines. |
palatable, red, globose, 5–6 mm, glabrous. |
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2n | = 16. |
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Ribes roezlii |
Ribes viburnifolium |
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Phenology | Flowering Feb–Apr. | |||||||||
Habitat | Chaparral | |||||||||
Elevation | 30-600 m (100-2000 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
CA; NV; OR
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CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). Ribes roezlii occurs in the South Coast and North Coast ranges of California and adjacent Oregon and in the Sierra Nevada in California and adjacent Nevada. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Ribes viburnifolium is native on Santa Catalina Island and in northwestern Baja California. It is commonly cultivated; a population from a planting in San Clemente Canyon, Orange County, persists. Reports of populations in seemingly natural areas in Panama are unconfirmed. The leathery leaves are borne on long shoots, and the entire plant has a spicy, resinous fragrance. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 31. | FNA vol. 8, p. 16. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Grossulariaceae > Ribes | Grossulariaceae > Ribes | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Grossularia roezlii | |||||||||
Name authority | Regel: Gartenflora 28: 226, plate 982, figs. 1–3. 1879 (as roezli) , | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 17: 202. 1882 , | ||||||||
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