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Ornithostaphylos
Family:
Ericaceae
FNA
Resources
George M. Diggs Jr. in Flora of North America (vol. 8)
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.
Species within checklist:
Sonoran Desert Region
Ornithostaphylos oppositifolia
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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [MG-70-19-0057-19].
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