familyEricaceae
subfamilyEricaceae subfam. Arbutoideae
genusArctostaphylos
speciesArctostaphylos crustacea
Arctostaphylos crustacea subsp. subcordata
Madroño 54: 152. 2007,.
Common names: Santa Cruz Island manzanita
Basionym: Arctostaphylos subcordata Eastwood Leafl. W. Bot. 1: 61. 1933
Synonyms: Arctostaphylos tomentosa subsp. subcordata (Eastwood) P. V. Wells
Twigs sparsely short-hairy and densely glandular-hairy. Leaf-blade surfaces ± finely tomentose, densely glandular-hairy, ± papillate abaxially. Immature inflorescence axes densely glandular-hairy. Ovaries white-hairy, sparsely glandular.
Phenology: Flowering winter–early spring.
Habitat: Island chaparral
Elevation: 100-600 m
Discussion
Of conservation concern.
Subspecies subcordata is known from Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa islands. Occasional mainland glandular-hairy individuals occur in mixed populations with subsp. crustacea and may key to subsp. subcordata.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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absent +
revolute +
glabrous +
hypogynous +
dehiscent +
inverted +
short-hairy +
not furrowed +
persistent +
flaky +
exfoliating +
truncate;more or less lobed +
oblong-ovate;oblong-lanceolate +
coriaceous +
leaflike +
persistent +
not appressed +
much shorter +
proximal +
absent +
spreading +
apart +
clustered +
spread +
absent +
Santa Cruz Island manzanita +
aromatic +
absent +
white +
deciduous +
absent +
rotate to crateriform campanulate cylindric globose or urceolate +
conic;urceolate +
scale-like +
Calif. +
straight +
undifferentiated +
fusiform +
minute +
stonelike +
stony +
cellular +
abundant +
fleshy +
radial +
distinct +
dilated +
symmetric +
pendulous +
bisexual +
drupaceous +
indehiscent +
depressed-globose +
multicellular +
absent +
absent +
immature +
glandular-hairy +
immature +
2-8-branched +
developing +
5-20(-50)-flowered +
developing +
papillate +
bifacial +
persistent +
cauline +
much shorter +
plane +
revolute +
absent +
furrowed +
2-10-locular +
axile +
superior +
white-hairy +
lobed +
anatropous +
fascicles +
hypogynous +
absent +
white;pink +
connate +
absent +
reduced +
not sticky +
absent +
4-5-carpellate +
solid +
Madroño +
1889 +
not winged +
tan;yellowish-brown or brown +
1;10 +
globose +
persistent +
distinct +
absent +
connate +
single +
included +
capitate +
5-lobed +
absent +
distinct +
hollow +
straight +
declinate +
Arctostaphylos crustacea subsp. subcordata +
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