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|accepted_name=Cornus sessilis
|accepted_authority=Torrey in E. M. Durand
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Pl. Pratten. Calif.,
|place=89. 1855
|year=1855
}}
|common_names=Blackfruit dogwood
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cornaceae;Cornus;Cornus subg. Cornus;Cornus sessilis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cornaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cornus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Cornus subg. Cornus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cornus sessilis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 449
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, to 5 m, flowering at 2 m. <b>Stems</b> solitary; bark corky; branches splotched with maroon, brown, or red, eventually splitting along longitudinal swellings; branchlets green, densely appressed-hairy; lenticels maroon swellings, often erupting with corky surface. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 5–10 mm, base encircling twig; blade elliptic, 4–9 × 2–4 cm, base cuneate, apex acute or short acuminate, abaxial surface yellow-green, appressed-hairy, tufts of erect hairs in axils of secondary veins, adaxial surface dark green, sparsely appressed-hairy; secondary veins 4–5 per side, most usually arising from basal 1/2. <b>Inflorescences</b> 10–15-flowered; peduncle 0–1 mm; bracts tan or brown, lanceolate, 0.5–1 cm, apex acute. <b>Pedicels</b> lax, apex flared. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium narrowly conic, appressed-hairy; sepals 0.1–0.5 mm; petals greenish yellow, lanceolate, 3–4 mm. <b>Drupes</b> maturing from green to yellow, red, then purple-black, ellipsoid, 10–15 × 5–7.5 mm; stone widely fusiform, 8–12 × 4–6 mm, with 2 lateral grooves on distal 2/3. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jun; fruiting Aug–Sep.
|habitat=Moist ravines and stream banks.
|elevation=60–2000 m.
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
|discussion=<p><i>Cornus sessilis</i> is restricted to northern California, generally in the Klamath Range, Cascade Range, and northern Sierra <i>Nevada</i>, and southern Oregon in the Siskiyou Mountains.</p>
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name=Cornus sessilis
|author=
|authority=Torrey in E. M. Durand
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cornaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jun; fruiting Aug–Sep.
|habitat=Moist ravines and stream banks.
|elevation=60–2000 m.
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
|reference=None
|publication title=Pl. Pratten. Calif.,
|publication year=1855
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Cornus
|subgenus=Cornus subg. Cornus
|species=Cornus sessilis
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