Cercocarpus douglasii

Cercocarpus douglasii Rydberg, sp. nov
Cercocarpus parvifolius Nutt.; H. & A. Bot. Beech Voy. 337, in part. 1838.
Cercocarpus belulaefolius typicus C. K. Schneid. Handb. Laubh. 1: 531. 1905.
Cercocarpus belulaefolius Blancheae C. K. Schneid. Mitt. Deuts. Dendr. Ges. 14: 127, in part. 1905.
Tree up to 5 m. high, with gray rough bark; branches canescent when young, glabrate; petioles 5-10 mm. long; leaf -blades oblong-obovate, dentate above the middle with small teeth, rounded at the apex, acute at the base, rather firm, villous-canescent when young, in age glabrate and green above, grayish-tomentose beneath, 2-4 cm. (rarely 5 cm.) long, 1-3 cm. wide; lateral veins 5-8 on each side; flowers usually 2 or 3 in the axils; tube of the hypanthium 8-9 mm. long, villoustomentose; limb campanulate, villous without, glabrous within, together with the sepals 6-7 mm. broad; sepals broadly triangular, acute; achenes 12-15 mm. long, silky; style in fruit 7-8 cm. long.
Type collected in California, D. Douglas.
Distribution: California and southern Oregon, near the coast.