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Arctostaphylos refugioensis
Gankin
Family:
Ericaceae
Refugio Manzanita
FNA
Resources
V. Thomas Parker, Michael C. Vasey, Jon E. Keeley in Flora of North America (vol. 8)
Shrubs,
erect, 2-4 m; burl absent; twigs densely short-hairy with longer, gland-tipped hairs.
Leaves:
petiole to 2 mm; blade glaucous, dull, ovate to oblong-ovate, 3-4.5 × 2-3 cm, base distinctly lobed, auriculate-clasping, margins entire, plane, surfaces smooth, glabrous or midrib ± finely hairy.
Inflorescences
panicles, 5-10-branched; immature inflorescence pendent, branches spreading (open, loose, with overlapping bracts), axis 2-3 cm, 1+ mm diam., densely short-hairy with longer, gland-tipped hairs; bracts not appressed, leaflike, ovate to wide-elliptic, 4-10 mm, apex acute, surfaces finely glandular-hairy.
Pedicels
7-9 mm, finely glandular-hairy.
Flowers:
corolla white, conic to urceolate; ovary glabrous.
Fruits
globose, 10-15 mm diam., glabrous.
Stones
connate into single sphere.
2
n
= 26.
Flowering winter-early spring. Chaparral; of conservation concern; 400-600 m; Calif.
Arctostaphylos refugioensis
is known from one population in Refugio Canyon in Santa Barbara County.
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