Flora of North America species comparison

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Xylococcus

mission manzanita
Habit Shrubs, burled; bark reddish, shredding.
Stems

spreading to erect, branching, cinereous-tomentulose.
Leaves

usually alternate, rarely opposite, bifacial;

blade narrowly elliptic, elliptic, or ovate, coriaceous, margins entire, strongly revolute, abaxial surface densely white- to cinereous-tomentose, adaxial glabrous.
Inflorescences

dense panicles, 4–12-flowered, (axis cinereous-tomentulose).
Flowers

bisexual;

sepals persistent, (4–)5, connate basally, ovate;

petals (4–)5, connate 1/2+ their lengths, white or pink (rose), corolla urceolate;

stamens (8–)10, included;

anthers with 2 awns, dehiscent by slitlike pores;

filaments elongate, dilated near base, (hairy);

ovary (4–)5-locular, (hairy);

stigma capitate.
Drupes

red to almost black, subglobose, dry, with smooth exocarp and thin pulpy layer;

pyrenes 5, connate into smooth, solid stone.
Seeds

5, connate.
x

= 13.

Xylococcus
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. 404. Author: Laurence J. Dorr.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Arbutoideae
Subordinate taxa
X. bicolor
Name authority Nuttall: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 8: 258. 1842 ,
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