Arctostaphylos glandulosa subsp. crassifolia

(Jepson) P. V. Wells

Madroño 19: 205. 1968,.

Conservation concern
Basionym: Arctostaphylos glandulosa var. crassifolia Jepson Madroño 1: 86. 1922
Synonyms: Arctostaphylos tomentosa var. crassifolia (Jepson) Jepson
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 8. Treatment on page 444. Mentioned on page 443.

Twigs sparsely short-hairy, not glandular-hairy. Leaf-blades dark green, margins often reddish, base cuneate to rounded, surfaces smooth, glabrous. Inflorescences: immature inflorescence axis densely white-hairy; bracts densely white-hairy. Pedicels densely white-hairy. Ovaries densely white-hairy. Fruits markedly flattened depressed-globose. Stones usually distinct.


Phenology: Flowering winter–early spring.
Habitat: Maritime chaparral and closed-cone conifer forests on sandstone coastal bluffs
Elevation: 10-100 m

Distribution

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Calif., Mexico (Baja California)

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Subspecies crassifolia is found near San Diego and southward in northern Baja California. It is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"entire" is not a number.

acute +, lanceolate +, deltate +, awl-like +  and leaflike +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
V. Thomas Parker +, Michael C. Vasey +  and Jon E. Keeley +
(Jepson) P. V. Wells +
short-hairy +  and hairy +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
not furrowed +
gray +  and reddish +
persistent +
exfoliating +
cuneate;rounded +
Arctostaphylos glandulosa var. crassifolia +
bright green +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (4.5 cm45 mm <br />0.045 m <br />) +
slightly glaucous +  and strongly gray-glaucous +
dull +  and shiny +
elliptic;ovate +
coriaceous +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
not imbricate +  and imbricate +
hue +, light-brown +  and tan +
persistent +
white-hairy +
lanceolate +, ovate +, deltate +, keeled +  and scale-like +
white +  and pink +
rotate to crateriform campanulate cylindric globose or urceolate +
conic;urceolate +
Calif. +  and Mexico (Baja California) +
brown +, reddish-brown +  and red +
depressed-globose +  and globose +
10-100 m +
undifferentiated +
fusiform +
stonelike +
indehiscent +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
glandular-hairy +  and glabrous +
depressed-globose;flattened +
dark +, pink +  and clear +
Maritime chaparral and closed-cone conifer forests on sandstone coastal bluffs +
multicellular +
opposite +, whorled +  and alternate +
pubescence +  and color +
persistent +
plane;toothed;entire +
parietal +, axile +  and placentation +
white-hairy +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
reduced +
not sticky +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
Flowering winter–early spring. +
4-5-carpellate +
not +  and connate +
tan;yellowish-brown or brown +
connate +  and distinct +
globose +
persistent +
distinct +
ovate +  and deltate +
Conservation concern +
prostrate +  and erect +
hairy +  and glabrous +
peltate +  and capitate +
distinct +
straight +
papillate +
Arctostaphylos tomentosa var. crassifolia +
Arctostaphylos glandulosa subsp. crassifolia +
Arctostaphylos glandulosa +
subspecies +
not glandular-hairy +  and short-hairy +
achlorophyllous +  and chlorophyllous +
evergreen +, deciduous +  and perennial +
shrub +  and mound-forming +
heterotrophic +, autotrophic +  and mycotrophic +