Comarostaphylis

Zuccarini

Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. 2: 331. 1837 ,.

Etymology: Greek komaros, arbutus, and staphyle, cluster of grapes, alluding to resemblance of fruit clusters to those of Arbutus unedo
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 8. Treatment on page 401. Mentioned on page 375, 397, 398.
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Comarostaphylis diversifolia
Comarostaphylis diversifolia subsp. planifolia
Ornithostaphylos
Ornithostaphylos oppositifolia
Xylococcus
Xylococcus bicolor
Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
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Shrubs or trees, burled, (capable of sprouting after fire); bark gray to reddish, peeling to shredding [flaking, exfoliating, sometimes in patches]. Stems usually erect to spreading, rarely trailing or mat-forming, branching, glabrous or densely hairy. Leaves persistent [rarely facultatively drought-deciduous], bifacial; blade narrowly ovate to ovate or elliptic to obovate or broadly ovate, coriaceous, margins usually serrate to serrulate, rarely subentire, plane or revolute, abaxial surface usually densely gray-tomentose, rarely subglabrous, adaxial (green, shining), usually glabrous, sometimes hairy along midvein. Inflorescences racemes [panicles], solitary or clustered, 5–30-flowered. Flowers bisexual; sepals (drying) persistent, (4–) 5, distinct or slightly connate, narrowly triangular to subulate or nearly acicular; petals (4–) 5, (imbricate), connate for 3/4+ their lengths, white [greenish white, pale-yellow, pink, or red], corolla cylindric to nearly globose; stamens 10, included; filaments dilated near base; anthers with 2 dorsal awns, dehiscent by 2 slits 1/4–1/2 as long as anthers; ovary 5-locular, (papillate); stigma slightly capitate. Drupes red [nearly black to dark purple], globose, juicy, warty, granular, or papillate (with multicellular papillae radiating ± perpendicularly outward); pyrenes 5, connate into solid, thick-walled, stonelike, globose endocarp. Seeds 5, connate. x = 13.

Distribution

Calif., Mexico, Central America

Discussion

Arctostaphylos Adanson sect. Comarostaphylis (Zuccarini) A. Gray; Arctostaphylos subg. Comarostaphylis (Zuccarini) A. Gray

Species 10 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

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subglabrous +  and gray-tomentose +
hairy +  and glabrous +
George M. Diggs Jr. +
Zuccarini +
not furrowed +
gray +  and reddish +
narrowly ovate;ovate or elliptic +
coriaceous +
rotate to crateriform campanulate cylindric globose or urceolate +
cylindric;nearly globose +
Calif. +, Mexico +  and Central America +
papillate +  and granular +
globose +
undifferentiated +
fusiform +
thick-walled +  and solid +
globose +  and stonelike +
Greek komaros, arbutus, and staphyle, cluster of grapes, alluding to resemblance of fruit clusters to those of Arbutus unedo +
indehiscent +
multicellular +
opposite +, whorled +  and alternate +
persistent +
revolute;plane;subentire;serrate to serrulate +
parietal +, axile +  and placentation +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
reduced +
not sticky +
4-5-carpellate +
Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. +
tan;yellowish-brown or brown +
connate +
globose +
persistent +
connate +  and distinct +
narrowly triangular +  and subulate or nearly acicular +
1/4 +  and 1/2 +
mat-forming +
trailing +, usually erect +  and spreading +
hairy +  and glabrous +
peltate +  and capitate +
straight +
Undefined tribe Arbuteae +
Comarostaphylis +
Ericaceae subfam. Arbutoideae +
achlorophyllous +  and chlorophyllous +
evergreen +, deciduous +  and perennial +
tree +  and shrub +
heterotrophic +, autotrophic +  and mycotrophic +