Common Name: HEATH FAMILY Habit: Perennial herb, shrub, tree. Stem: bark often peeling distinctively. Leaf: simple or 0, generally cauline, alternate, opposite (whorled), evergreen or deciduous, often leathery, petioled or not; stipules 0. Inflorescence: raceme, panicle, cyme, or flowers 1, terminal or axillary, generally bracted; pedicel often with 2 bractlets. Flower: generally bisexual, generally radial, bell-shaped, cylindric, or urn-shaped; sepals generally (0)4--5, generally free; petals generally (0)4--5, free or fused; stamens (2--5)8--10, free, filaments rarely appendaged, anthers dehiscing by pores or slits, awns 0 or 2(4), seemingly abaxial, reduced or elongate, generally curved; nectary generally present at ovary base, generally disk-like; ovary superior or inferior, chambers generally 1--5, placentas axile or parietal, ovules 1--many per chamber, style 1, stigma head- to funnel-like or lobed. Fruit: capsule, drupe, berry. Seed: generally many, winged or not. Genera In Family: +- 100 genera, 3000 species: generally worldwide except deserts; some cultivated, especially Arbutus, Arctostaphylos, Rhododendron, Vaccinium. Note: Monophyletic only if Empetraceae included, as treated here. Ledum included in Rhododendron. Non-green plants obtain nutrition from green plants through fungal intermediates. eFlora Treatment Author: Gary D. Wallace, except as noted Scientific Editor: Gary D. Wallace, Thomas J. Rosatti, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Habit: Shrub, small tree, coarsely branched, non- and/or glandular-hairy. Stem: erect. Leaf: alternate, evergreen, serrate. Inflorescence: raceme, in fall, bracted; pedicel jointed to flower, bractlets 2, +- basal. Flower: sepals 5, fused at base; petals 5, fused, [cylindric to] urn-shaped; stamens 10, anthers dehiscing by pores, awns 4, [elongate to] vestigial, filaments +- straight, with hairs, papillae [or only papillae]; ovary superior, chambers 5, placentas axile, stigma truncate [or head-like/peltate]. Fruit: capsule, loculicidal, erect, persistent after seed dispersal, dehiscing tip to base. Seed: many per chamber, small, generally winged. Etymology: (Greek: name for a princess of Babylon) eFlora Treatment Author: Walter S. Judd Reference: Waselkov & Judd 2008 Brittonia 60:382--397
Leucothoe davisiae Torr. ex A. Gray
NATIVE Stem: < 1.5 m. Leaf: 1.5--8 cm, oblong to elliptic or ovate, leathery. Inflorescence: in upper leaf axils, < 15 cm, many-flowered; pedicel recurved. Flower: corolla 5.5--8.5 mm, >> calyx, white. Fruit: < 6 mm wide, thin-walled. Ecology: Uncommon. Bogs, wet areas; Elevation: 400--3000 m. Bioregional Distribution: KR, CaRH, SNH, Wrn; Distribution Outside California: Oregon. Flowering Time: Jun--Aug Jepson eFlora Author: Walter S. Judd Reference: Waselkov & Judd 2008 Brittonia 60:382--397 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Leucothoe Next taxon: Menziesia
Botanical illustration including Leucothoe davisiae
Citation for this treatment: Walter S. Judd 2012, Leucothoe davisiae, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=30815, accessed on April 23, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 23, 2024.
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