Cordylanthus pilosus |
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hairy bird's-beak |
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Stems | erect or ascending, 10–90(–120) cm, densely puberulent and glandular-puberulent, and pilose. |
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Leaves | 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 | 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 15–20 mm, margins entire or toothed. |
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Flowers | 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-ovoid, 6–10 mm. |
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Seeds | 10–18, dark brown, ovoid, 1.5–2.5 mm, striate. |
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2n | = 28. |
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Cordylanthus pilosus |
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Distribution |
CA
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 674. | ||||
Parent taxa | Orobanchaceae > Cordylanthus | ||||
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Name authority | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 382. (1868) | ||||
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