''Cercocarpus douglasii'', common name Klamath mountain mahogany, is a plant species native to northern

California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...

and southwestern

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. ''Cercocarpus douglasii'' is a tree up to 5 meters (17 feet) tall with rough, gray bark. Leaves are oblong to oblanceolate, up to 5 cm (2 inches) long, with rounded tips, green and hairless on the upper side but whitish with woolly hairs underneath. Flowers are borne in groups of 2 or 3 in the

axils A leaf (: leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally above ground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", while the leaves, stem, f ...

of the leaves.Rydberg, Per Axel, in Britton, Nathaniel Lord. 1913. North American Flora 22(5): 421.
/ref>Baldwin et al. 2012. Jepson Manual: Vascular Plants of California, ed 2. University of California Press, Berkeley.

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douglasii Flora of Oregon Plants described in 1913 Flora of California Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Rosaceae-stub