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|accepted_name=Adenostoma sparsifolium
|accepted_authority=Torrey in W. H. Emory
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in W. H. Emory, Not. Milit. Reconn.,
|place=140. 1848
|year=1848
}}
|common_names=Red shank;ribbon bush
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae;Rosaceae tribe Sorbarieae;Adenostoma;Adenostoma sparsifolium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rosaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Rosaceae tribe Sorbarieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Adenostoma]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Adenostoma sparsifolium]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 393
|treatment_page=page 394
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>erect, 20–60 dm. <b>Stems</b> erect to spreading; bark distinctively cinnamon-colored, papery-layered; young stem internodes yellowish green, 1.5–7(–15) mm (marked with slender paired decurrent grooves), finely hirtellous, sessile-glandular. <b>Leaves</b> on slender long shoots, proximal 1–2 opposite, distal subalternate or alternate; stipules absent; blade yellow-green, linear to terete, (2.5–)5–14(–26) × 0.4–0.6(–0.8) mm, apex recurved-apiculate, surfaces sparsely hirtellous and sessile-glandular. <b>Inflorescences</b> paniculate or reduced to spicate racemes (terminating all distal, long shoots of season), 0.8–5(–7.5) cm, hirtellous; subtending flower bracts linear-subulate; bracteoles 5 or 6, outermost subulate, inner oblong-ovate, concave. <b>Pedicels</b> present or absent. <b>Flowers</b> in sessile clusters of 2–3 (or single and pedicellate); hypanthium greenish, 0.6–2 mm, hirtellous, inner rims yellowish; sepals broadly ovate, 0.6–1 mm; petals persistent, whitish, turning rusty brown, elliptic to ovate, 1.5–2.2 mm; stamens 10(–12), filaments 1–1.5 mm, anthers 0.4–0.6 mm; ovaries obliquely obovoid; styles erect, pinkish, 0.5–1 mm. <b>Achenes</b> ellipsoid, 1.1–1.6 mm, exserted from hypanthium. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Aug(–Sep).
|habitat=Dry granitic slopes, mesas, ravines, chaparral, pinyon woodlands
|elevation=200–2000 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|discussion=<p><i>Adenostoma sparsifolium</i> is known in southern California from San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara to Riverside and San Diego counties, and in northern Baja California.</p>
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name=Adenostoma sparsifolium
|authority=Torrey in W. H. Emory
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Rosaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Aug(–Sep).
|habitat=Dry granitic slopes, mesas, ravines, chaparral, pinyon woodlands
|elevation=200–2000 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=in W. H. Emory, Not. Milit. Reconn.,
|publication year=1848
|special status=
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|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Sorbarieae
|genus=Adenostoma
|species=Adenostoma sparsifolium
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