Ornithostaphylos

Illustrator: Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey

Copyright: Flora of North America Association

Shrubs, burled; bark sometimes reddish purple when young, thin, sometimes peeling. Stems erect, rigidly branched, minutely tomentose. Leaves opposite or whorled, bifacial; blade linear to linear-oblong or narrowly lanceolate, coriaceous, margins entire, revolute, abaxial surface minutely tomentose, adaxial glabrous. Inflorescences panicles, 10–20-flowered. Flowers 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. Drupes brown or reddish brown, globose or nearly so, dry, smooth; pyrenes 5, connate into solid, globose endocarp. Seeds 10, connate.

Distribution

s Calif., nw Mexico.

Discussion

Species 1: s California, nw Mexico.

Species 1

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Ornithostaphylos oppositifolia