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|accepted_name=Ornithostaphylos
|accepted_authority=Small in N. L. Britton et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl.
|place=29: 101. 1914 ,
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|common_names=Baja California or Baja birdbush
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Arbutoideae;Ornithostaphylos
|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>[[Ornithostaphylos]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek ornithos, bird, and staphyle, cluster of grapes, allusion obscure
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 375, 397
|treatment_page=page 403
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> burled; bark sometimes reddish purple when young, thin, sometimes peeling. <b>Stems</b> erect, rigidly branched, minutely tomentose. <b>Leaves</b> opposite or whorled, bifacial; blade linear to linear-oblong or narrowly lanceolate, coriaceous, margins entire, revolute, abaxial surface minutely tomentose, adaxial glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> panicles, 10–20-flowered. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; sepals persistent, (4–)5, connate to 1/2 their lengths, triangular; petals (4–)5, connate 2/3–3/4 their lengths, white, corolla nearly globose to urceolate (sometimes widest proximally); stamens 8–10, included, (equal); filaments dilated near base; anthers with awns, dehiscent by 2 slits; ovary 5-locular; stigma slightly capitate. <b>Drupes</b> brown or reddish brown, globose or nearly so, dry, smooth; pyrenes 5, connate into solid, globose endocarp. <b>Seeds</b> 10, connate.</span><!--

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|distribution=s Calif.;nw Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Species 1: s California, nw Mexico.</p><!--
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name=Ornithostaphylos
|author=George M. Diggs Jr.
|authority=Small in N. L. Britton et al.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ericaceae
|distribution=s Calif.;nw Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl.
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|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Arbutoideae
|genus=Ornithostaphylos
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