Cordylanthus eremicus |
Cordylanthus nidularius |
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desert bird's-beak |
bird-on-nest, Mount Diablo bird's-beak, Mt. Diablo bird's-beak |
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Stems | erect or ascending, 10–80 cm, puberulent, glabrescent. |
decumbent, 5–10(–15) cm, glandular-puberulent and pilose. |
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Leaves | puberulent, sometimes scabrous; proximal 10–40 mm, margins 3–7-lobed, lobes 1 mm wide; distal 5–25 × 1 mm, margins entire. |
glandular-puberulent and pilose; proximal 10–30 mm, margins entire or 3-lobed, lobes 1–2 mm wide; distal 10–20 × 1 mm, margins entire. |
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Inflorescences | capitate spikes, 3–14-flowered; bracts 5–10, 5–20 mm, margins 5–7-lobed, lobes purple or yellow-green, linear to filiform. |
spikes, 2- or 3-flowered, or flowers solitary; bracts 2 or 3, 10–15 mm, margins 3-lobed, lobes purple distally, linear to filiform. |
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Pedicels | bracteoles 10–20 mm, margins entire. |
bracteoles 10–15 mm, margins entire. |
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Flowers | calyx 10–20 mm, tube 1–3 mm, apex entire or 2-fid, cleft 0–0.5 mm; corolla pink to lavender-pink, usually spotted with purple, 10–20 mm, throat 4–6 mm diam., abaxial lip pink or yellow, 3–6 mm, shorter than and appressed to adaxial; stamens 4, filaments hairy, fertile pollen sacs 2 per filament, equal. |
calyx 10–16 mm, tube 0 mm, apex entire; corolla white with purple veins, 10–15 mm, throat 5–7(–9) mm diam., abaxial lip 3–5 mm, ca. equal to and appressed to adaxial; stamens 4, filaments hairy, fertile pollen sacs 2 per filament, equal. |
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Capsules | oblong-lanceoloid, 7–10 mm. |
oblong-ovoid, 5–7 mm. |
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Seeds | 10–15, pale brown, ovoid, 1.5–2 mm, reticulate. |
7–10, dark brown, ovoid to reniform, 1.5–2 mm, irregularly striate. |
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2n | = 28. |
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Cordylanthus eremicus |
Cordylanthus nidularius |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Aug. | |||||
Habitat | Dry, open serpentine in chaparral. | |||||
Elevation | 600–800 m. (2000–2600 ft.) | |||||
Distribution |
CA |
CA |
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). Cordylanthus eremicus is similar to C. wrightii, which also has relatively short, dense spikes and inflorescence bracts palmately three- to seven-lobed. Cordylanthus eremicus can be distinguished from C. wrightii by its gray to white hairs. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Cordylanthus nidularius is the only member of the genus with decumbent stems. The species is similar to C. tenuis; it differs in its white (versus pale yellow) corollas and decumbent (versus erect to ascending) stems. It grows on the eastern slopes of Mt. Diablo. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 671. | FNA vol. 17, p. 673. | ||||
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Synonyms | Adenostegia eremica, C. ramosus subsp. eremicus | |||||
Name authority | (Coville & C. V. Morton) Munz: Man. S. Calif. Bot., 483, 601. (1935) | J. T. Howell: Leafl. W. Bot. 3: 207. (1943) | ||||
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