Arctostaphylos glauca (Big Berry Manzanita)

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Common Names in English:

Big Berry Manzanita, Bigberry Manzanita

Common Names in unspecified:

Bigberry Manzanita

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Family Ericaceae

Plants usually woody, or herbs, sometimes lacking chlorophyll. Leaves spiral , sometimes decussate, margin often toothed . Inflorescence racemose; bracteoles paired , basal. Flowers (4 or) 5-merous. Calyx imbricate. Corolla connate , imbricate. Stamens 10, sometimes with spurs or awns , dehiscing by pores , pollen in tetrads , rarely single. Ovary superior or inferior, placentation axile , rarely parietal , often many ovules per locule. Style ± as long as corolla, slender. Fruit a capsule or berry, rarely a drupe; calyx persistent.

About 125 genera and 4000 species: widely distributed in temperate and subarctic regions, also at high elevations in tropical regions ; 22 genera and 826 species (524 endemic) in China.

The Monotropoideae are here included in the Ericaceae; previously in FRPS (56: 157 216. 1990), they were treated as the Pyrolaceae. Chiogenes, recorded from China in FRPS (57(3) : 69 71. 1991), is here included in Gaultheria. Over the last half century, the Empetraceae have usually been separated from, but closely associated with, the Ericaceae. In their ecology, leaf morphology and insertion , rusts, embryology, stamen anatomy, etc. , they largely agree with that family . Molecular data place Empetrum and its relatives firmly within the Ericaceae, and in particular within the subfamily Ericoideae, in agreement with phytochemical and palynological data, and there they are best recognized as a separate tribe . There are distinctive features of the Empetreae that were responsible for their past familial status, e.g. , reduced perianth with separate members , low ovule number, enlarged stigmas, etc. However, these are likely to be derived features associated with wind pollination. See Kron et al. (Bot. Rev. 68: 335 423. 2002) and the recent treatment of the Ericaceae by Stevens et al. (in Kubitzki, Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. 6: 145 194. 2004) .

Several genera and many species are ornamentals . Some fruits of Vaccinium in N China are sweet and edible, but of no particular value to humans. Some species of Chamaedaphne, Craibiodendron, Leucothoë, Lyonia, Pieris, and Rhododendron contain more or less toxic diterpenes, which are harmful to humans or domestic animals.[1]

Physical Description

Habit: Tree , Shrub

Flowers: Flower Color: near white, white

Size/Age/Growth

Size: 6-8' tall.

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,278 meters (0 to 4,193 feet).[2]

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Culture: Space 8-10' apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 6.1 • Maximum pH: 7.8

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Moisture: Drought Tolerance: High

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b. (map)

Taxonomy

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Domain: Eukaryota () - Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae () - Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
  - Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae () - Cavalier-Smith, 1981
    - Phylum: Tracheophyta () - Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
      - Subphylum: Euphyllophytina ()
        Infraphylum: Radiatopses () - Kenrick & Crane, 1997
        Class: Spermatopsida () - Brongniart, 1843
        Subclass: Asteridae () - Takhtajan, 1967
        Superorder: Ericanae () - Takhtajan, 1967
        Order: Ericales () - Dumortier, 1829
        Family: Ericaceae () - A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons. - éricacées, heaths
        Subfamily: Arbutoideae ()
        Genus: Arctostaphylos () - Adanson, 1763, nom. cons.
        Specific epithet: glauca - Lindl.
        Botanical name: - Arctostaphylos glauca Lindl.

Synonyms

Arctostaphylos glauca var. puberula J. T. Howell • Uva-Ursi Glauca • Uva-ursi glauca (Lindl.) Abrams • Xerobotrys Glaucus

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

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Contributors

Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed April 30, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 02, 2008:

Berkeley Natural History Museums, University and Jepson Herbaria DiGIR provider
Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
Utah State University, USU-UTC Specimen Database

Identifiers

Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2649039
Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-23485
Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13740600
Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:326587-1
GRIN Nomen Number: 3862
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 23485
International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 326586-1
Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDERI040F0
U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: ARGLP
Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 22064

Footnotes

Mingyuan Fang, Ruizheng Fang, Mingyou He, Linzheng Hu, Hanbi Yang, Haining Qin, Tianlu Min, David F. Chamberlain, Peter Stevens, Gary D. Wallace & Arne Anderberg "Ericaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 14 Page 242. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
Mean = 199.920 meters (655.906 feet), Standard Deviation = 411.010 based on 52 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

Arctostaphylos glauca

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