Habit: Plant generally 0.5--2 m; sap clear. Stem: axis erect; branches generally many, spreading to erect; twigs generally +- red, turning gray, generally hairy, glabrous in age; young lateral twigs short, sometimes becoming spine-like. Leaf: cauline, generally clustered at short, lateral branch tips; petiole < 2 mm; blade leathery, base obtuse to acute. Staminate Inflorescence: cyme, raceme, or panicle, occasionally clustered on short, lateral twigs, minute-bracted. Pistillate Inflorescence: flower 1. Staminate Flower: sepals 0.5--2 mm; filaments glabrous or hairy; nectary disk +- minute-lobed. Pistillate Flower: sepals 2--5 mm; nectary disk minute-lobed; ovary (2)3--5-chambered, style = chamber in number, free, +- flat, generally spreading. Fruit: +- spheric, generally lobed, glabrous or short-hairy, generally brown. Seed: smooth, shiny. Etymology: (Latin: 4 seeds, from 4-lobed ovary in Tetracoccus dioicus) eFlora Treatment Author: Grady L. Webster Reference: Dressler 1954 Rhodora 56:45--61
Tetracoccus ilicifolius Coville & Gilman
NATIVE Stem: twigs sparsely and finely brown-tomentose, glabrous in age. Leaf: generally opposite or 3-whorled; blade 15--30 mm, lanceolate to ovate or wide-elliptic, sharp-toothed, teeth 8--20 per leaf, tip obtuse to acute. Staminate Inflorescence: panicle, +- dense; flowers +- sessile; pedicel << 0.5 mm. Staminate Flower: sepals 7--9, +- linear to lanceolate; stamens 7--9, filaments 2--3 mm, base soft-hairy. Pistillate Flower: pedicel 8--15 mm; sepals 5--8, 2--4 mm, wide-lanceolate to ovate; ovary densely tomentose, chambers 4, styles +- 3 mm. Fruit: 8--9 mm, 6--8 mm wide, brown-tomentose. Ecology: Dry, rocky slopes; Elevation: 600--1700 m. Bioregional Distribution: n DMtns (Grapevine Mtns, Panamint Range). Flowering Time: May--Jun Jepson eFlora Author: Grady L. Webster Reference: Dressler 1954 Rhodora 56:45--61 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Listed on CNPS Rare Plant Inventory Previous taxon: Tetracoccus hallii Next taxon: Pittosporaceae
Botanical illustration including Tetracoccus ilicifolius
Citation for this treatment: Grady L. Webster 2012, Tetracoccus ilicifolius, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=46214, accessed on April 22, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 22, 2024.
Geographic subdivisions for Tetracoccus ilicifolius:
n DMtns (Grapevine Mtns, Panamint Range).
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