Menziesia Sm.

Shrubs. Stems erect, spreading, or straggling; young twigs minutely pilose and hairy; (older twigs without peglike projections). Leaves deciduous, alternate, (crowded toward branch tips); petiole present; blade membranous, margins crenulate-serrulate, (rolled under in bud, abaxial surface 1/3+ visible except sometimes in bud). Inflorescences terminal umbelliform or corymbiform clusters on previous year’s shoots, 2-10-flowered; perulae ± persistent, scarious, margins minutely ciliate. Flowers bisexual, ± bilaterally symmetric; sepals 4[-5], connate ca. 3/4 their lengths; petals 4[-5], connate for ca. 2/3 their lengths, corolla deciduous, cylindric-urceolate, soon campanulate, (glabrous or finely puberulent adaxially); stamens 8 [5 or 10], included; anthers without awns, dehiscent adaxially by 2 longitudinal, terminal slits; ovary 4[-5]-locular; style included; stigma capitate. Fruits capsular, ovoid to ovoid-oblong or obovate, dehiscence basipetally septicidal. Seeds ca. 50-90, linear or narrowly ovoid, ± prolonged to form apiculate tip or elongate appendage, without wings; testa smooth, membranous. x = 13.