Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Uva-ursi pringlei (Parry) Abrams
Arctostaphylos Pringlei Parry, Bull. Calif. Acad. 2: 494. 1887.
An erect shrub 2 m. high, with smooth dull reddish-brown bark and glandular-villous branchlets; leaf-blades narrowly ovate to narrowly elliptic, 25-40 mm. long, obtuse to acute and mucronate at the apex, firm-coriaceous, pale grayishgreen, scabrous, more or less glandular-villous at the base, the midvein prominent; petioles glandular-villous, 6-8 mm. long; flowers in ample loose panicles; branches of the inflorescence slender, glandular-villous; bracts membranous, pink, deciduous, 5-6 mm. long; pedicels very slender, 12-16 mm. long, glandularvillous; calyx-lobes thin, glandular-villous, oblong-lanceolate, 3 mm. long; corolla pale-pink, 7-8 mm. long; fruit glandular, globose, light-brown; nutlets irregularly coalescent, sharply carinate and coarsely rugose in the intervals.
Type locality: Rincon Mountains, altitude 2000 m., Arizona. Distribution: Coniferous forest belt, Arizona,
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, NathanieI Lord Britton, Per Axel Rydberg, LeRoy Abrams. 1914. ERICALES, CLETHRACEAE, LENNOACEAE, PTROLACEAE, MONOTROPACEAE, ERICACEAE, UVA-URSI. North American flora. vol 29(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
