Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Uva-ursi hookeri (G. Don) Abrams
Arctostaphylos Hookeri G. Don, Gen. Hist. 3: 836. 1834. Andromeda venulosa DC. Prodr. 7: 607. 1839. Arctostaphylos acuta Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 8: 267. 1843. Xerobotrys venulosa Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 8: 268. 1843. Daphnidostaphylis Hookeri Klotzsch, Linnaea 24: 80. 1851. Daphnidostaphylis acuta Klotzsch, Linnaea 24 : 81. 1 85 1 . Arctostaphylos franciscana Eastw. Bull. Torrey Club 32: 201. 1905.
A low, erect, bushy shrub, branching from the base, with smooth very dark reddish-brown bark and somewhat tomentose branchlets; leaf-blades ovate to obovate, 12-25 mm. long, bright-green or slightly cinereous when young, prominently reticulateveined ; petioles slender, 3-5 mm. long; flowers in short subcapitate racemes; rachis tomentose; bracts triangular, 2 mm. long, tomentose; pedicels 3-4 mm. long, glabrous; calyx-lobes ovate, pubescent on the margins; corolla pink, 4-5 mm. long; ovary glabrous; fruit slightly depressed-globose, chestnutbrown, 4-5 mm. broad; nutlets irregularly coalescent, 3 mm. long, rounded on the back, ribbed and rugosely roughened.
Type locality: Monterey, California.
Distribution: Near the coast from San Francisco to San Simeon Bay, San Luis Obispo County, California.
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- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, NathanieI Lord Britton, Per Axel Rydberg, LeRoy Abrams. 1914. ERICALES, CLETHRACEAE, LENNOACEAE, PTROLACEAE, MONOTROPACEAE, ERICACEAE, UVA-URSI. North American flora. vol 29(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
