Cordylanthus kingii |
Cordylanthus parviflorus |
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Heller's bird's beak, King's bird's-beak |
purple bird's-beak, small-flower bird's-beak, sticky bird's-beak |
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Stems | erect, 10–80 cm, puberulent, pubescent, or densely villous. |
erect to ascending, 20–60 cm, hirsute and densely glandular-pubescent. |
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Leaves | 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. |
glandular-pubescent and hirsute; proximal 10–30 mm, margins 3-lobed, lobes 1 mm wide; distal 5–20 × 1 mm, margins entire. |
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Inflorescences | 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. |
spikes, 2-flowered, or flowers solitary; bracts 1(or 2), 5–15 mm, margins 3-lobed, lobes sometimes purplish distally, linear-lanceolate. |
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Pedicels | bracteoles 10–40 mm, margins pinnately lobed. |
bracteoles 10–12 mm, margins entire. |
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Flowers | 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. |
calyx 10–15 mm, tube 5–8 mm, apex 2-fid, cleft 1 mm; corolla pale pink to purple-pink with darker veins, 15–20 mm, tube 10–15 mm, throat 5–7 mm diam., abaxial lip 5–6 mm, shorter than and not appressed to adaxial; stamens 4, filaments hairy, fertile pollen sacs 2 per filament, equal. |
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Capsules | oblong-lanceoloid, 6–12 mm. |
oblong-lanceoloid, 7–9 mm. |
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Seeds | 15–20, light brown, ovoid to reniform, 2–2.5 mm, reticulate and papillate. |
15–20, dark brown, ovoid to reniform, 1.5–2 mm, reticulate and papillate. |
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2n | = 26. |
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Cordylanthus kingii |
Cordylanthus parviflorus |
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Phenology | Flowering Aug–Oct. | |||||||||
Habitat | Dry, rocky slopes, sagebrush scrub, pinyon-juniper woodlands, Joshua tree woodlands. | |||||||||
Elevation | 700–2200 m. (2300–7200 ft.) | |||||||||
Distribution |
CA; NV; UT
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AZ; CA; ID; NV; UT
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Discussion | Subspecies 3 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Cordylanthus parviflorus is similar to C. laxiflorus, which also has unequal corolla lips. It can be distinguished from C. laxiflorus by its pink to purple (versus yellow) corollas and stamens with two pollen sacs. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 672. | FNA vol. 17, p. 673. | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Adenostegia parviflora, C. glandulosus | |||||||||
Name authority | S. Watson: Botany (Fortieth Parallel), 233, 460, plate 22, figs. 3–6. (1871) | (Ferris) Wiggins: Contr. Dudley Herb. 1: 174. (1933) | ||||||||
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