Ceanothus arcuatus

McMinn in M. van Rensselaer and H. McMinn

Ceanothus, 247, fig. 82. 1942.

Common names: Arching ceanothus
Endemic
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Shrubs, 0.3–0.8 m, moundlike. Stems ascending or spreading, not rooting at nodes; branchlets brown to grayish brown, ± rigid, tomentulose, glabrescent. Leaves sometimes fascicled, axillary short-shoots ascending to spreading; petiole 1–2 mm; blade flat, elliptic to oblanceolate, 4–10 × 2–5 mm, base rounded, margins thick, not revolute, usually entire, rarely denticulate near apex, teeth 1–3, apex rounded to obtuse, abaxial surface green to pale green, glabrate, adaxial surface pale green, glabrous. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, 0.8–2.5 cm. Flowers: sepals and petals white to pale blue; nectary pale blue or yellow tinged. Capsules 4–6 mm wide, not to weakly lobed; valves smooth to rugulose, horns subapical, prominent, erect, intermediate ridges absent.


Phenology: Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat: Granitic or serpentine soils, conifer forests.
Elevation: 900–2300 m.

Discussion

Ceanothus arcuatus was explicitly described as a species by McMinn but inexplicably treated as a hybrid between C. fresnensis and C. cuneatus by P. A. Munz (1959). Munz may have been influenced by McMinn’s hypothesis that C. arcuatus was derived through hybridization between the two species. Some specimens from the Klamath Mountains have been either interpreted as C. cuneatus or misidentified as hybrids between C. pumilus and C. cuneatus. Populations of C. arcuatus are relatively uniform throughout their geographic distribution and often represent the dominant understory shrub in conifer forests of the Klamath Mountains and Sierra Nevada. Ceanothus arcuatus occurs primarily on metamorphic substrates in the Klamath Mountains and the northern Sierra Nevada, but in the central Sierra Nevada (Nevada County south to Madera County), the most common substrate is granitic.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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green +  and pale green +
perigynous +  and epigynous +
rounded +  and obtuse +
Clifford L. Schmidt† +  and Dieter H. Wilken +
McMinn in M. van Rensselaer and H. McMinn +
ascending +  and spreading +
rounded +
Ceanothus sect. Cerastes +
3-veined +  and veined +
not gland-dotted +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
3[-5]-veined +  and pinnate +
spinulose +, spinose +, serrate +  and entire +
denticulate +, dentate +, crenulate +, crenate +  and serrulate +
elliptic;oblanceolate +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
not thorn-tipped +
glabrescent +  and tomentulose +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
Arching ceanothus +
Calif. +  and Oreg. +
900–2300 m. +
Granitic or serpentine soils, conifer forests. +
subapical +
free +  and adnate +
shallowly cupulate +  and hemispheric +
terminal +  and axillary +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
deciduous +  and persistent +
denticulate +
yellow tinged;pale blue +
intrastaminal +
superior +  and inferior +
not fleshy +
perigynous +  and epigynous +
white +  and pale blue +
adnate +  and distinct +
6 +  and 5 +
clawed +, obovate +  and spatulate +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
Flowering May–Jun. +
2-4-carpellate +
intermediate +
white +  and pale blue +
distinct +
spreading +  and incurved +
6 +  and 5 +
keeled;lanceolate;deltate +
not rooting +
spreading +  and ascending +
Ceanothus arcuatus +
Ceanothus subg. Cerastes +
species +
paniclelike +  and racemelike +
not gland-tipped +
smooth +  and rugulose +
unarmed +  and armed +
polygamous +, dioecious +  and synoecious +