Common Name: OLIVE FAMILY Habit: Perennial herb to tree [vine], hairs 0 or peltate or not; rarely dioecious. Leaf: simple to odd-pinnately compound, alternate or generally opposite, deciduous or evergreen; stipules 0. Inflorescence: various; flowers >= 1. Flower: generally bisexual, generally radial; calyx generally minute (0), tube cup-shaped, teeth or lobes 4--15; petals (0)4--6(8), generally fused; nectar disk often present; stamens (0)2(4--5), epipetalous; pistil 1, ovary superior, chambers 2, each 2--4 ovuled, placenta axile, style 1, stigma generally 2-lobed. Fruit: drupe, capsule, or winged achene. Seed: 1 per chamber. Genera In Family: +- 25 genera, 900 species: +- worldwide; some cultivated for ornament (Forsythia; Jasminum, jasmine; Ligustrum, privet; Syringa, lilac) or food (Olea, olive). eFlora Treatment Author: Family description, key to genera by Thomas J. Rosatti; treatment of genera by James Henrickson, except as noted Scientific Editor: Bruce G. Baldwin.
Habit: Shrub, erect to mounded; generally dioecious. Leaf: simple, opposite or clustered, generally deciduous, short-petioled. Inflorescence: axillary clusters; staminate flowers +- sessile; pistillate flowers pedicelled. Flower: unisexual [bisexual]; calyx minute, lobes awl-shaped, early-deciduous; corolla 0. Staminate Flower: stamens (1)4(6); filaments long, free (in California); anthers white [black]; pistil vestigial if present. Pistillate Flower: stamens 0 or 1--4, reduced, sterile (in California); ovules 2 per chamber; style short, slender; stigma head-shaped or 2-lobed. Fruit: drupe. Etymology: (André Robert Forestier, French physician, teacher, 1736--1812) Reference: Nesom 2009 Lundellia 12:8--14 Unabridged Reference: Brooks 1977 Ph.D. Dissertation, Univ of Alabama, University Station
Forestiera pubescens Nutt.
NATIVE Habit: Shrub, 12--50 dm, generally rounded. Stem: many, bark smooth, tan-gray; twigs short, +- rigidly thorny, glabrous to puberulent. Leaf: blade 15--40(50) mm, elliptic or lanceolate to ovate, leathery, entire to minutely toothed, glabrous. Inflorescence: generally appearing before leaves. Staminate Flower: 1--5 per bud; pedicel +- 0; filaments 3--5 mm, yellow. Pistillate Flower: 1--8 per bud; pedicel 2--5 mm, green, some branched; ovary > 1 mm, style +- 1 mm. Fruit: 5--8 mm, elliptic in outline, +- glaucous, purple-black. Chromosomes: 2n=46. Ecology: Streambanks, canyons, washes; Elevation: 100--1800 m. Bioregional Distribution: se NCoRI, s SNF, c&s SNH (e slope), Teh, e SnFrB, SCoR, TR, PR, s SNE, DMoj; Distribution Outside California: to Colorado, Texas, northern Mexico. Flowering Time: Mar--Apr Note: California specimens with glabrous stems, leaves, pedicels, except some in eastern San Bernardino Co. Synonyms: Forestiera pubescens var. parviflora (A. Gray) Nesom; Forestiera neomexicana A. Gray var. arizonica A. Gray; Forestiera neomexicana var. neomexicana Jepson eFlora Author: Family description, key to genera by Thomas J. Rosatti; treatment of genera by James Henrickson Reference: Nesom 2009 Lundellia 12:8--14 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Forestiera Next taxon: Fraxinus
Botanical illustration including Forestiera pubescens
Citation for this treatment: Family description, key to genera by Thomas J. Rosatti; treatment of genera by James Henrickson 2012, Forestiera pubescens, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=25982, accessed on February 09, 2025.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2025, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on February 09, 2025.
Geographic subdivisions for Forestiera pubescens:
se NCoRI, s SNF, c&s SNH (e slope), Teh, e SnFrB, SCoR, TR, PR, s SNE, DMoj
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