Arctostaphylos hookeri subsp. hookeri

Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 8. Treatment on page 418.

Plants erect or mound-forming, 0.5–1.5 m. Leaves: petiole 4–8 mm; blade ± elliptic, 2–3 × 1–1.5 cm.


Phenology: Flowering winter–early spring.
Habitat: Maritime chaparral and closed-cone conifer forests on stable dunes and sandstone uplands
Elevation: 0-200 m

Discussion

Subspecies hookeri is restricted to the area surrounding Monterey Bay, Monterey County.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"entire" is not a number.

V. Thomas Parker +, Michael C. Vasey +  and Jon E. Keeley +
G. Don +
short-hairy +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
not furrowed +
persistent +
exfoliating +
rounded;cuneate +
bright green +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
ovate;elliptic +
coriaceous +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
not imbricate +  and imbricate +
hue +, light-brown +  and tan +
persistent +
deltate +  and scale-like +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
rotate to crateriform campanulate cylindric globose or urceolate +
urceolate +
brown +, reddish-brown +  and red +
depressed-globose +  and globose +
0-200 m +
undifferentiated +
fusiform +
stonelike +
indehiscent +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
globose +
Maritime chaparral and closed-cone conifer forests on stable dunes and sandstone uplands +
multicellular +
1-branched +  and simple +
opposite +, whorled +  and alternate +
pubescence +  and color +
persistent +
mound-forming +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (150 cm1,500 mm <br />1.5 m <br />) +
parietal +, axile +  and placentation +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
reduced +
not sticky +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 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 +
persistent +
prostrate +  and erect +
hairy +  and glabrous +
peltate +  and capitate +
distinct +
straight +
glabrous +, glabrescent +  and puberulent +
Undefined tribe Arbuteae +
Arctostaphylos hookeri subsp. hookeri +
Arctostaphylos hookeri +
subspecies +
short-hairy +
achlorophyllous +  and chlorophyllous +
evergreen +, deciduous +  and perennial +
plant +  and mound-forming +
heterotrophic +, autotrophic +  and mycotrophic +