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|accepted_name=Comarostaphylis
|accepted_authority=Zuccarini
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss.
|place=2: 331. 1837 ,
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Arbutoideae;Comarostaphylis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ericaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Ericaceae subfam. Arbutoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Comarostaphylis]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek komaros, arbutus, and staphyle, cluster of grapes, alluding to resemblance of fruit clusters to those of Arbutus unedo
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 375, 397, 398
|treatment_page=page 401
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, burled, (capable of sprouting after fire); bark gray to reddish, peeling to shredding [flaking, exfoliating, sometimes in patches]. <b>Stems</b> usually erect to spreading, rarely trailing or mat-forming, branching, glabrous or densely hairy. <b>Leaves</b> persistent [rarely facultatively drought-deciduous], bifacial; blade narrowly ovate to ovate or elliptic to obovate or broadly ovate, coriaceous, margins usually serrate to serrulate, rarely subentire, plane or revolute, abaxial surface usually densely gray-tomentose, rarely subglabrous, adaxial (green, shining), usually glabrous, sometimes hairy along midvein. <b>Inflorescences</b> racemes [panicles], solitary or clustered, 5–30-flowered. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; sepals (drying) persistent, (4–)5, distinct or slightly connate, narrowly triangular to subulate or nearly acicular; petals (4–)5, (imbricate), connate for 3/4+ their lengths, white [greenish white, pale yellow, pink, or red], corolla cylindric to nearly globose; stamens 10, included; filaments dilated near base; anthers with 2 dorsal awns, dehiscent by 2 slits 1/4–1/2 as long as anthers; ovary 5-locular, (papillate); stigma slightly capitate. <b>Drupes</b> red [nearly black to dark purple], globose, juicy, warty, granular, or papillate (with multicellular papillae radiating ± perpendicularly outward); pyrenes 5, connate into solid, thick-walled, stonelike, globose endocarp. <b>Seeds</b> 5, connate. <b>x</b> = 13.</span><!--

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|distribution=Calif.;Mexico;Central America.
|discussion=<p><i>Arctostaphylos</i> Adanson sect. <i>Comarostaphylis</i> (Zuccarini) A. Gray; <i>Arctostaphylos</i> subg. <i>Comarostaphylis</i> (Zuccarini) A. Gray</p><!--
--><p>Species 10 (1 in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=diggs1987a
|text=Diggs, G. M. 1987. Numerical systematics of Comarostaphylis (Arbuteae, Ericaceae). Syst. Bot. 12: 586–600.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=diggs1995a
|text=Diggs, G. M. 1995. Comarostaphylis. In: Organization for Flora Neotropica. 1968+. Flora Neotropica. 98+ nos. New York. No. 66, pp. 146–193.
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name=Comarostaphylis
|author=George M. Diggs Jr.
|authority=Zuccarini
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ericaceae
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico;Central America.
|reference=diggs1987a;diggs1995a
|publication title=Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss.
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_755.xml
|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Arbutoideae
|genus=Comarostaphylis
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