Difference between revisions of "Myrica californica"

Chamisso

Linnaea 6: 535. 1831.

Common names: Pacific bayberry California wax-myrtle
Endemic
Synonyms: Gale californica (Chamisso) Greene
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 3.
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="shrub duration;shrub some measurement;tree size;tree duration;tree some measurement"><b>Shrubs </b>or small trees, evergreen, 2-10 m.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="branchlet coloration;branchlet coloration;branchlet coloration;branchlet coloration;branchlet coloration;branchlet coloration;gland coloration;gland coloration;gland coloration;gland pubescence;gland pubescence;gland pubescence;gland pubescence"><b>Branchlets </b>green when young, becoming redbrown, eventually black to gray with age, densely gland-dotted, glands colorless to black, pilose to villous, ultimately glabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf-blade odor;leaf-blade shape;leaf-blade shape;leaf-blade shape;leaf-blade length;leaf-blade width;leaf-blade texture;leaf-blade texture;base shape;margin variability;blade length;blade architecture or shape;blade architecture or shape;apex shape"><b>Leaf-</b>blade fragrant when crushed, narrowly elliptic to elliptic-oblanceolate, 4-13 × 0.7-3.1 cm, sometimes membranous, more commonly leathery, base cuneate-attenuate, margins variable, from nearly entire (less common) to remotely and coarsely serrate entire length of blade, apex acute;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="surface coloration;surface coloration;surface reflectance;surface coloration">surfaces abaxially pale green, adaxially dark green, shiny, both surfaces gland-dotted;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="gland coloration;gland coloration;gland coloration;gland density;midrib pubescence;midrib pubescence;midrib pubescence">glands colorless to black, considerably more dense abaxially, midrib pilose to glabrate adaxially.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="inflorescence architecture;inflorescence atypical some measurement;inflorescence some measurement"><b>Inflorescences:</b> staminate 0.6-1.7 (-2.5) cm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="inflorescence reproduction;inflorescence atypical some measurement;inflorescence some measurement">bisexual 0.6-1.9 (-3) cm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="flower reproduction;flower architecture;flower architecture;flower architecture;flower architecture;spike quantity">flowers bisexual, staminate, or pistillate within any 1 spike.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="flower architecture;bract height or length or size;margin coloration;margin architecture or pubescence or shape"><b>Staminate </b>flowers: bract of flower shorter than staminal column, margins opaque and densely ciliate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="flower architecture;stamen atypical quantity;stamen atypical quantity;stamen quantity">stamens (2-) 6-12 (-22).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="flower architecture;flower reproduction;bracteole duration;bracteole size;bracteole fusion;fruit quantity;margin architecture or pubescence or shape"><b>Pistillate </b>and bisexual flowers: bracteoles usually persistent in fruit, 4-6, not accrescent or adnate to fruit wall, margins ciliate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="flower architecture;flower reproduction;stamen quantity;stamen fusion;stamen fusion;flower reproduction;flower position">stamens 1-5, in bisexual flowers hypogynous, free or often adnate to ovary, especially near styles;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="whole_organism architecture;flower reproduction;ovary pubescence">ovary ± villous, especially at apex.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="fruit shape;fruit some measurement"><b>Fruits </b>globose-ellipsoid, 4-6.5 mm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="fruit wall pubescence;fruit wall pubescence;fruit wall pubescence;fruit wall prominence;protuberance size;protuberance pubescence;coat coloration">fruit wall glabrate to sparsely villous, obscured by enlarged, glabrous protuberances, with or without light to very heavy coat of white wax.</span><!--
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Latest revision as of 22:50, 5 November 2020

Shrubs or small trees, evergreen, 2-10 m. Branchlets green when young, becoming red-brown, eventually black to gray with age, densely gland-dotted, glands colorless to black, pilose to villous, ultimately glabrous. Leaf blade fragrant when crushed, narrowly elliptic to elliptic-oblanceolate, 4-13 × 0.7-3.1 cm, sometimes membranous, more commonly leathery, base cuneate-attenuate, margins variable, from nearly entire (less common) to remotely and coarsely serrate entire length of blade, apex acute; surfaces abaxially pale green, adaxially dark green, shiny, both surfaces gland-dotted; glands colorless to black, considerably more dense abaxially, midrib pilose to glabrate adaxially. Inflorescences: staminate 0.6-1.7(-2.5) cm; bisexual 0.6-1.9(-3) cm; flowers bisexual, staminate, or pistillate within any 1 spike. Staminate flowers: bract of flower shorter than staminal column, margins opaque and densely ciliate; stamens (2-)6-12(-22). Pistillate and bisexual flowers: bracteoles usually persistent in fruit, 4-6, not accrescent or adnate to fruit wall, margins ciliate; stamens 1-5, in bisexual flowers hypogynous, free or often adnate to ovary, especially near styles; ovary ± villous, especially at apex. Fruits globose-ellipsoid, 4-6.5 mm; fruit wall glabrate to sparsely villous, obscured by enlarged, glabrous protuberances, with or without light to very heavy coat of white wax.


Phenology: Flowering spring–early summer, fruiting summer–early fall.
Habitat: Coastal conifer forests, bogs, sand dunes, stream banks, wet meadows, marshes, low, moist hillsides
Elevation: 0-1000 m

Distribution

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B.C., Calif., Oreg., Wash.

Discussion

On any one branchlet, staminate inflorescences are borne proximal to bisexual inflorescences; the most distal inflorescences may be completely pistillate.

It is quite common for two or three pistillate or bisexual flowers to occur per bract and for the ovaries to fuse to form a syncarp. In the fruiting condition this can usually be detected by counting the number of style branches (two per ovary, therefore four for a syncarp derived from two fused ovaries). Many specimens apparently do not produce any wax, in which case the fruits appear purple-black rather than white.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
... more about "Myrica californica"
Allan J. Bornstein +
Chamisso +
Pacific bayberry +  and California wax-myrtle +
B.C. +, Calif. +, Oreg. +  and Wash. +
0-1000 m +
Coastal conifer forests, bogs, sand dunes, stream banks, wet meadows, marshes, low, moist hillsides +
Flowering spring–early summer, fruiting summer–early fall. +
Gale californica +
Myrica californica +
species +