Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Uva-ursi stanfordiana (Parry) Abrams
Arctostaphylos Stanfordiana Parry, Bull. Calif. Acad. 2; 493. 1887,
An erect branching shrub, with slender branches and smooth reddish-brown bark, and slender glabrous or sparsely puberulent branchlets ; leaf -blades narrowly ovate to oblanceolate, 25-40 mm. long, obtuse to acute and mucronate at the apex, bright-green, glabrous and shining; petioles flattened, 6-S mm. long; flowers in loose drooping panicles; branches of the inflorescence glabrous or sparsely puberulent, very slender, the flower-bearing part often 4-5 cm. long; bracts subulate, mostly less than 2 mm. Ibng; calyx-lobes ovate, glabrous; corolla pink, 6-8 mm. long; ovary glabrous; fruit yellowish-brown, somewhat depressed-globose; 97
nutlets broader than long, usually 2 or more coalescent or rarely all united into an irregular stone.
TyPE tocAWTY: Mountain slopes in the vicinity of Calistoga. Calif omia Contra Cos^aCounty.''^'^ '^"^^^ °^ northern and central California, from Mendocino County to
- bibliographic citation
- 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
