Arctostaphylos confertiflora Eastw.
  • Leafl. W. Bot. 1: 122 (1934) 
  • Santa Rosa Island manzanita


Cite taxon page as 'WFO (2023): Arctostaphylos confertiflora Eastw. Published on the Internet;http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000543487. Accessed on: 03 Oct 2023'

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Shrubs, erect, prostrate, or mound-forming, 0.1-2 m; burl absent; twigs densely short-hairy with long, white, glandular hairs. Leaves (overlapping); petiole 4-10 mm; blade light green, dull, ovate to elliptic, 4-6 × 2-3 cm, base cuneate to ± rounded, margins entire, cupped, surfaces ± papillate, finely scabrous, glandular-puberulent, ± glandular-hairy proximally. Inflorescences panicles, 3-5-branched; immature inflorescence pendent, branches spreading, axis 1.5-2 cm, 1+ mm diam., densely short-hairy with long, white, glandular hairs; bracts not appressed, (crowded), (± densely overlapping near tips), (green), leaflike, ovate to oblanceolate, 8-18 mm, apex acute, surfaces finely glandular-hairy. Pedicels 3-5 mm, finely glandular-hairy. Flowers: corolla white, conic to urceolate; ovary densely white-hairy, sparsely glandular. Fruits depressed-globose, 8-11 mm diam., sparsely hairy. Stones distinct. 2n = 26.

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    Flora of North America @ efloras.orgGeneral Information

    Shrubs, erect, prostrate, or mound-forming, 0.1-2 m; burl absent; twigs densely short-hairy with long, white, glandular hairs. Leaves (overlapping); petiole 4-10 mm; blade light green, dull, ovate to elliptic, 4-6 × 2-3 cm, base cuneate to ± rounded, margins entire, cupped, surfaces ± papillate, finely scabrous, glandular-puberulent, ± glandular-hairy proximally. Inflorescences panicles, 3-5-branched; immature inflorescence pendent, branches spreading, axis 1.5-2 cm, 1+ mm diam., densely short-hairy with long, white, glandular hairs; bracts not appressed, (crowded), (± densely overlapping near tips), (green), leaflike, ovate to oblanceolate, 8-18 mm, apex acute, surfaces finely glandular-hairy. Pedicels 3-5 mm, finely glandular-hairy. Flowers: corolla white, conic to urceolate; ovary densely white-hairy, sparsely glandular. Fruits depressed-globose, 8-11 mm diam., sparsely hairy. Stones distinct. 2n = 26.

    Other Local Names

    NameLanguageCountry
    Santa Rosa Island manzanita

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    'Flora of North America @ eFloras (2008). Published on the Internet http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=1 [accessed August 2016]' Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
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    Vahliaceae
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