Twigs sparsely short-hairy, not glandular-hairy. Leaf blades dark green to moderately gray-green, base cuneate to rounded, surfaces smooth, sparsely puberulent, glabrescent. Inflo-rescences: immature inflorescence axis densely white-hairy; bracts densely white-hairy. Pedicels densely white-hairy. Ovaries densely white-hairy. Fruits slightly depressed-globose. Stones mostly connate into single, sometimes weakly connate sphere.

Flowering winter-early spring. Chaparral; of conservation concern; 1300-1500 m; Calif.

Subspecies gabrielensis is known from the central and western Transverse Range in Los Angeles and San Bernadino counties.