Comprehensive Description
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anglais
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fourni par North American Flora
Uva-ursi manzanita (Parry) Abrams
Arctostaphylos Manzanita Parry, Bull. Calif. Acad. 2: 491. 1887. Arctosiaphylos elegans Jepson, Erythea 1: 15. 1893.
An erect bushy or arborescent shrub, 2-4 m. high, with dark reddish-brown bark and
puberulent or rarely nearly glabrous branchlets; leaf-blades ovate to suborbicular or obovate,
25-45 mm. long, obtuse or rounded and mucronate at the apex, firm-coriaceous, dull-green
with a bloom, somewhat puberulent when young, becoming glabrous; flowers in more or less
ample panicles ; branches of the inflorescence hoarytomentose to nearly glabrous ; calyx-lobes
broadly ovate, glabrous; corolla 7-8 mm. long, pale-pink to white; ovary glabrous; fruit
more or less depressed-globose, 8-12 mm. broad; nutlets irregularly coalescent, carinate on
the back and rugose.
Type locality: Foothills of the coast ranges north of San Francisco, California. Distribution: Southern Oregon, and southward through the foothills of the coast ranges and the Sierra Nevada to central California.
- citation bibliographique
- John Kunkel Small, NathanieI Lord Britton, Per Axel Rydberg, LeRoy Abrams. 1914. ERICALES, CLETHRACEAE, LENNOACEAE, PTROLACEAE, MONOTROPACEAE, ERICACEAE, UVA-URSI. North American flora. vol 29(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
