Cordylanthus kingii |
Cordylanthus pilosus |
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Heller's bird's beak, King's bird's-beak |
hairy bird's-beak |
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Stems | erect, 10–80 cm, puberulent, pubescent, or densely villous. |
erect or ascending, 10–90(–120) cm, densely puberulent and glandular-puberulent, and pilose. |
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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. |
puberulent and pilose; proximal 15–40 mm, margins 3-lobed, lobes 0.1–0.5 mm wide; distal 10–25 × 0.1–0.3 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- or 3-flowered, or flowers solitary; bracts 1–4, 10–20 mm, margins entire or 3-lobed, lobes green or purple distally, linear-lanceolate. |
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Pedicels | bracteoles 10–40 mm, margins pinnately lobed. |
bracteoles 15–20 mm, margins entire or toothed. |
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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 15–20 mm, tube 0–1 mm, apex 2-fid, cleft 0.5–1 mm; corolla pale yellow to yellow-green, streaked and spotted with maroon, 15–20 mm, tube 5–10 mm, throat 5–8 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. |
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Capsules | oblong-lanceoloid, 6–12 mm. |
oblong-ovoid, 6–10 mm. |
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Seeds | 15–20, light brown, ovoid to reniform, 2–2.5 mm, reticulate and papillate. |
10–18, dark brown, ovoid, 1.5–2.5 mm, striate. |
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2n | = 28. |
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Cordylanthus kingii |
Cordylanthus pilosus |
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Distribution |
CA; NV; UT
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CA
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Discussion | Subspecies 3 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 672. | FNA vol. 17, p. 674. | ||||||||||||
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Name authority | S. Watson: Botany (Fortieth Parallel), 233, 460, plate 22, figs. 3–6. (1871) | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 382. (1868) | ||||||||||||
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