Common Name: SILK TASSEL FAMILY Habit: Shrub, small tree; dioecious. Leaf: simple, opposite, evergreen, petioled; blade +- leathery, flat to concave-convex, margin entire, flat, rolled under, or strongly wavy. Inflorescence: catkin-like, pendent; flowers small, in axils of opposite, 4-ranked, basally fused bracts. Staminate Flower: (1)3(4) per bract, pedicelled; perianth parts 4, generally fused at tips; stamens 4, alternate perianth parts, filaments free, anthers 2-chambered. Pistillate Flower: 1--3 per bract; pedicel +- 0 or short; perianth 0 or vestigial with 2 small appendages; ovary inferior, chamber 1, styles 2(3). Fruit: berry, spheric to ovoid, green, fleshy, turning dark blue, black, or white-gray, dry, brittle, not or irregularly dehiscent. Seed: generally 2. Genera In Family: 1 genus, 14 species: western United States, Central America, Caribbean; some cultivated. eFlora Treatment Author: Thomas F. Daniel Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Etymology: (N. Garry, 1st secretary of Hudson's Bay Co., explorer of Pacific Northwest with David Douglas, 1782--1856) Note: Intergradation among California species raises doubt about taxonomic status.
Garrya elliptica Lindl.
NATIVE Habit: Shrub, small tree, < 8 m. Leaf: 18--107 mm, 14--72 mm wide, 1.2--2.6 × longer than wide, flat to +- concave-convex, elliptic; margin +- to strongly wavy, often rolled under, appearing crenate or dentate; abaxial hairs dense, curly-wavy, interwoven, sparse in age or not. Inflorescence: in fruit 18--28 mm wide. Pistillate Flower: (1)3 per bract. Fruit: hairs dense. Chromosomes: 2n=22. Ecology: Seacliffs, sand dunes, chaparral, foothill-pine woodland; Elevation: < 800 m. Bioregional Distribution: NCo, KR, NCoRO, CW (exc SCoRI); Distribution Outside California: western Oregon. Flowering Time: Jan--Mar Jepson eFlora Author: Thomas F. Daniel Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Garrya congdonii Next taxon: Garrya flavescens
Citation for this treatment: Thomas F. Daniel 2012, Garrya elliptica, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=26460, accessed on April 19, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 19, 2024.
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