Arctostaphylos manzanita subsp. manzanita

Endemic
Synonyms: Arctostaphylos bowermaniae Roof
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 8. Treatment on page 437. Mentioned on page 438.

Plants killed by fire; burl absent; twigs glabrous or sparsely short-hairy. Leaf-blades dull to shiny green, not glaucous. Inflorescences: axis (many-branched), 1 mm diam.; (branches usually 15–25 mm in immature phase). Ovaries glabrous. Fruits glabrous. Stones distinct. 2n = 52.


Phenology: Flowering winter–early spring.
Habitat: Foothill woodlands, interior chaparral, sometimes in open conifer forests
Elevation: 0-1200 m

Discussion

Subspecies manzanita is widely distributed from the Diablo Range in the interior central coast northward around the southern Cascades and southward along the western slope of the Sierra Nevada. It occurs in open stands or as solitary, arborescent individuals. In the North Coast Ranges, apparent hybrids with Arctostaphylos stanfordiana are commonly encountered; they are shiny-green-leaved plants bearing immature inflorescences with very slender, many-branched panicles.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"entire" is not a number.

acuminate +  and mucronate +
V. Thomas Parker +, Michael C. Vasey +  and Jon E. Keeley +
not viscid +
glandular-hairy +, short-hairy +  and glabrous +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (4.5 cm45 mm <br />0.045 m <br />) +
not furrowed +
gray +  and reddish +
persistent +
exfoliating +
rounded;more or less cuneate +
bright green +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
dull +  and shiny +
oblong-ovate;obovate +
coriaceous +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (3.5 cm35 mm <br />0.035 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 /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
globose +
rotate to crateriform campanulate cylindric globose or urceolate +
conic;urceolate +
brown +, reddish-brown +  and red +
depressed-globose +  and globose +
0-1200 m +
undifferentiated +
fusiform +
stonelike +
indehiscent +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
depressed-globose +
Foothill woodlands, interior chaparral, sometimes in open conifer forests +
multicellular +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (?) +
dull +  and shiny +
opposite +, whorled +  and alternate +
pubescence +  and color +
persistent +
parietal +, axile +  and placentation +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
reduced +
not sticky +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
Flowering winter–early spring. +
4-5-carpellate +
Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. +
not +  and connate +
tan;yellowish-brown or brown +
connate +  and distinct +
globose +
persistent +
distinct +
ovate +  and deltate +
prostrate +  and erect +
hairy +  and glabrous +
peltate +  and capitate +
distinct +
straight +
sparsely hairy +  and finely glandular-hairy +
Arctostaphylos bowermaniae +
Arctostaphylos manzanita subsp. manzanita +
Arctostaphylos manzanita +
subspecies +
short-hairy +  and glabrous +
achlorophyllous +  and chlorophyllous +
evergreen +, deciduous +  and perennial +
heterotrophic +, autotrophic +  and mycotrophic +