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|accepted_name=Myrica californica
|accepted_authority=Chamisso
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Linnaea
|place=6: 535. 1831
|year=1831
}}
|common_names=Pacific bayberry;California wax-myrtle
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Gale californica
|authority=(Chamisso) Greene
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Myricaceae;Myrica;Myrica californica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Myricaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Myrica]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Myrica californica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or small trees, evergreen, 2-10 m. <b>Branchlets</b> green when young, becoming red-brown, eventually black to gray with age, densely gland-dotted, glands colorless to black, pilose to villous, ultimately glabrous. <b>Leaf</b> blade fragrant when crushed, narrowly elliptic to elliptic-oblanceolate, 4-13 × 0.7-3.1 cm, sometimes membranous, more commonly leathery, base cuneate-attenuate, margins variable, from nearly entire (less common) to remotely and coarsely serrate entire length of blade, apex acute; surfaces abaxially pale green, adaxially dark green, shiny, both surfaces gland-dotted; glands colorless to black, considerably more dense abaxially, midrib pilose to glabrate adaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b>: staminate 0.6-1.7(-2.5) cm; bisexual 0.6-1.9(-3) cm; flowers bisexual, staminate, or pistillate within any 1 spike. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: bract of flower shorter than staminal column, margins opaque and densely ciliate; stamens (2-)6-12(-22). <b>Pistillate</b> and bisexual flowers: bracteoles usually persistent in fruit, 4-6, not accrescent or adnate to fruit wall, margins ciliate; stamens 1-5, in bisexual flowers hypogynous, free or often adnate to ovary, especially near styles; ovary ± villous, especially at apex. <b>Fruits</b> globose-ellipsoid, 4-6.5 mm; fruit wall glabrate to sparsely villous, obscured by enlarged, glabrous protuberances, with or without light to very heavy coat of white wax.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer, fruiting summer–early fall.
|habitat=Coastal conifer forests, bogs, sand dunes, stream banks, wet meadows, marshes, low, moist hillsides
|elevation=0-1000 m
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.
|discussion=<p>On any one branchlet, staminate inflorescences are borne proximal to bisexual inflorescences; the most distal inflorescences may be completely pistillate.</p><!--
--><p>It is quite common for two or three pistillate or bisexual flowers to occur per bract and for the ovaries to fuse to form a syncarp. In the fruiting condition this can usually be detected by counting the number of style branches (two per ovary, therefore four for a syncarp derived from two fused ovaries). Many specimens apparently do not produce any wax, in which case the fruits appear purple-black rather than white.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Myrica californica
|authority=Chamisso
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Gale californica
|basionyms=
|family=Myricaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer, fruiting summer–early fall.
|habitat=Coastal conifer forests, bogs, sand dunes, stream banks, wet meadows, marshes, low, moist hillsides
|elevation=0-1000 m
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Linnaea
|publication year=1831
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_697.xml
|genus=Myrica
|species=Myrica californica
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