Arctostaphylos glandulosa subsp. leucophylla

J. E. Keeley

Madroño 54: 58. 2007,.

Treatment appears in FNA Volume 8. Treatment on page 445. Mentioned on page 443.

Twigs glandular-hairy. Leaf-blades strongly white-glaucous, base rounded, sometimes ± lobed to truncate, surfaces scabrous, finely glandular-hairy or sparsely puberulent. Inflorescences: immature inflorescence axis densely white-hairy, eglandular; bracts densely white-hairy, eglandular. Pedicels densely white-hairy. Ovaries densely white-hairy. Fruits slightly depressed-globose. Stones distinct.


Phenology: Flowering winter–early spring.
Habitat: interior chaparral on gabbroic soils
Elevation: 200-1200 m

Distribution

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Calif., Mexico (Baja California)

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Subspecies leucophylla occurs from the Peninsular Range of California southward to northern Baja California.

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 +
J. E. Keeley +
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 +
less lobed;truncate +
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 +
200-1200 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 +
dark +, pink +  and clear +
interior chaparral on gabbroic soils +
multicellular +
white-glaucous +
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 +
Illustrated +
prostrate +  and erect +
hairy +  and glabrous +
peltate +  and capitate +
distinct +
straight +
puberulent +, glandular-hairy +  and scabrous +
papillate +
Undefined tribe Arbuteae +
Arctostaphylos glandulosa subsp. leucophylla +
Arctostaphylos glandulosa +
subspecies +
glandular-hairy +
achlorophyllous +  and chlorophyllous +
evergreen +, deciduous +  and perennial +
shrub +  and mound-forming +
heterotrophic +, autotrophic +  and mycotrophic +