Biology:Arctostaphylos nummularia subsp. mendocinoensis

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Arctostaphylos nummularia subsp. mendocinoensis
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Arctostaphylos
Species:
Subspecies:
A. n. subsp. mendocinoensis
Trinomial name
Arctostaphylos nummularia subsp. mendocinoensis
(P.V.Wells) V.T.Parker, M.C.Vasey & J.E.Keeley
Synonyms[1]
  • Arctostaphylos mendocinoensis P.V.Wells

Arctostaphylos nummularia subsp. mendocinoensis, commonly known as pygmy manzanita, is a subspecies of manzanita. It is endemic to Mendocino County, California, where it is known from scattered occurrences in the pygmy forests near the coast.

Description

This is a small, mat-forming shrub growing in low mounds less than half a meter tall. It has red, shreddy bark and bristles along its smaller branches. The leaves are dark green, shiny, convex, and hairless, and rarely more than a centimeter long. The inflorescence is a dense cluster of urn-shaped flowers with four tiny lobes at the mouth. The fruit is a cylindrical drupe only a few millimeters long, containing four minute seeds.

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