Cordylanthus pilosus |
Cordylanthus rigidus |
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hairy bird's-beak |
rigid bird's beak, stiffbranch bird's beak |
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Stems | erect or ascending, 10–90(–120) cm, densely puberulent and glandular-puberulent, and pilose. |
ascending, 30–100(–150) cm, pubescent, hirsute, glabrescent, puberulent, sparsely hispid, or downy. |
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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. |
puberulent and often hirsute; proximal 10–40 mm, margins 3-lobed, lobes 1–3 mm wide; distal 10–30 × 0.5–1.5 mm, margins entire or 3-lobed. |
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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. |
capitate spikes, 2–15-flowered; bracts 5–10, 5–20 mm, margins entire or 3-lobed, lobes purplish black, ivory, or green distally, linear-lanceolate to linear or slightly spatulate. |
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Pedicels | bracteoles 15–20 mm, margins entire or toothed. |
bracteoles 14–20 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. |
calyx 10–20 mm, tube 1–2 mm, apex entire or 2-fid, cleft 0–1 mm; corolla pale yellow with purple veins and an abaxial, U-shaped, purple mark, 8–20 mm, throat 5–10 mm diam., abaxial lip 6–10 mm, ca. equal to and appressed to adaxial; stamens 4, filaments hairy, fertile pollen sacs 2 per filament, subequal. |
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Capsules | oblong-ovoid, 6–10 mm. |
oblong-ovoid, 8–12 mm. |
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Seeds | 10–18, dark brown, ovoid, 1.5–2.5 mm, striate. |
10–25, dark brown, oblong-ovoid, 1.5–2 mm, striate. |
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2n | = 28. |
= 28. |
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Cordylanthus pilosus |
Cordylanthus rigidus |
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Distribution |
CA
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CA; nw Mexico
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 4 (4 in the flora). Cordylanthus rigidus is variable, with many locally distinctive populations that intergrade with each other and with nearby species. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 674. | FNA vol. 17, p. 675. | ||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Orobanchaceae > Cordylanthus | Orobanchaceae > Cordylanthus | ||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Adenostegia rigida | |||||||||||||||||
Name authority | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 382. (1868) | (Bentham) Jepson: Fl. W. Calif. ed. 2, 387. (1911) | ||||||||||||||||
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