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Arctostaphylos edmundsii
J.T. Howell
Family:
Ericaceae
Little Sur Manzanita
FNA
Resources
V. Thomas Parker, Michael C. Vasey, Jon E. Keeley in Flora of North America (vol. 8)
Shrubs,
prostrate or mound-forming, 0.2-1.5 m; burl absent; twigs sparsely short-hairy.
Leaves
bifacial in stomatal distribution; petiole 2-3 mm; blade dark green, lustrous, orbiculate to orbiculate-ovate, 1-2.5 × 1-1.5 cm, base truncate to ± lobed, margins entire, plane, surfaces smooth, sparsely puberulent.
Inflorescences
panicles, 2-5-branched; immature inflorescence pendent, (branches crowded), axis 0.5-1 cm, 1+ mm diam., sparsely short-hairy; bracts not appressed, scalelike, deltate to awl-like, 3-5 mm, apex acute, surfaces sparsely hairy or glabrous.
Pedicels
3-4 mm, sparsely hairy or glabrous.
Flowers:
corolla white, urceolate; ovary sparsely hairy or glabrous.
Fruits
subglobose, 6-8 mm diam., glabrous.
Stones
distinct.
2
n
= 26.
Flowering winter-early spring. Steep, rocky slopes and bluffs near ocean; of conservation concern; 0-500 m; Calif.
Arctostaphylos edmundsii
is narrowly distributed along the Pacific Coast in the Little Sur region in the northern Santa Lucia Range, Monterey County.
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