Cordylanthus kingii
Heller's bird's beak, King's bird's-beak
erect, 10–80 cm, puberulent, pubescent, or densely villous.
glandular-pubescent;
proximal 10–40 mm, margins 3–5-lobed, lobes linear to filiform, 1–3 mm wide;
distal 10–25 × 1 mm, margins entire.
capitate spikes, 2–12-flowered, or flowers solitary;
bracts 1–6, 10–40 mm, margins 3-lobed, lobes purple distally, narrowly lanceolate, linear, or filiform.
bracteoles 10–40 mm, margins pinnately lobed.
calyx 15–30(–40) mm, tube 1–2.5 mm, apex 2-fid, cleft 2–3 mm;
corolla lavender-pink to purple-red or yellow with purple veins and markings, 15–25(–30) mm, throat 5–7 mm diam., abaxial lip 5–10 mm, ca. equal to and appressed to adaxial;
stamens 4, filaments hairy, fertile pollen sacs 2 per filament, equal.
oblong-lanceoloid, 6–12 mm.
15–20, light brown, ovoid to reniform, 2–2.5 mm, reticulate and papillate.
Cordylanthus kingii
Subspecies 3 (3 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Bracts 3–6, lobes narrowly lanceolate to linear. | subsp. helleri |
1. Bracts 1–3, lobes linear to filiform. | → 2 |
2. Corollas 15–25 mm; stems puberulent to pubescent; spikes 20–40 mm, 3–5(–8)-flowered. | subsp. kingii |
2. Corollas 25–30 mm; stems densely villous; spikes 40–50 mm, 8–12-flowered. | subsp. densiflorus |
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