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hairy bird's-beak

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hairy bird's beak, Hansen's bird's-beak

Stems

erect or ascending, 10–90(–120) cm, densely puberulent and glandular-puberulent, and pilose.

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.

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.

bracts 3-lobed.

Pedicels

bracteoles 15–20 mm, margins entire or toothed.

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.

Capsules

oblong-ovoid, 6–10 mm.

Seeds

10–18, dark brown, ovoid, 1.5–2.5 mm, striate.

Proximal

leaves 1–2 mm wide, margins entire or 3-lobed.

2n

= 28.

Cordylanthus pilosus

Cordylanthus pilosus subsp. trifidus

Phenology Flowering Jul–Aug.
Habitat Open woodlands.
Elevation 500–1000 m. (1600–3300 ft.)
Distribution
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Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Subspecies trifidus grows in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. T. I. Chuang and L. R. Heckard (1986) recognized subsp. hansenii as distinct based on its shallowly cleft inflorescence bracts and robust distal branches. These characteristics do not distinguish subsp. hansenii but occur occasionally in plants of both subsp. hansenii and subsp. trifidus. Also, the plants they separated as subsp. hansenii occur in two disjunct populations, separated geographically by their subsp. trifidus. Combining the subspecies creates a geographically, ecologically, and morphologically coherent group.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Key
1. Inflorescence bracts entire.
subsp. pilosus
1. Inflorescence bracts 3-lobed.
subsp. trifidus
Source FNA vol. 17, p. 674. FNA vol. 17, p. 674.
Parent taxa Orobanchaceae > Cordylanthus Orobanchaceae > Cordylanthus > Cordylanthus pilosus
Sibling taxa
C. capitatus, C. eremicus, C. kingii, C. laxiflorus, C. nevinii, C. nidularius, C. parviflorus, C. pringlei, C. ramosus, C. rigidus, C. tenuis, C. wrightii
C. pilosus subsp. pilosus
Subordinate taxa
C. pilosus subsp. pilosus, C. pilosus subsp. trifidus
Synonyms C. pilosus var. trifidus, Adenostegia hansenii, C. hansenii, C. pilosus subsp. hansenii
Name authority A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 382. (1868) (B. L. Robinson & Greenman) T. I. Chuang & Heckard: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 10: 68. (1986)
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