Cordylanthus pringlei |
Cordylanthus kingii |
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Pringle's bird's-beak |
Heller's bird's beak, King's bird's-beak |
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Stems | erect or ascending, 30–120(–150) cm, glabrous or puberulent. |
erect, 10–80 cm, puberulent, pubescent, or densely villous. |
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Leaves | puberulent or glabrous; proximal 10–40 mm, margins 3-lobed, lobes 1–2 mm wide; distal 5–20 × 1 mm, margins entire. |
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. |
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Inflorescences | capitate spikes, 2–4-flowered, 15–20 mm; bracts 1–3, flabelliform, 5–8 mm, margins 3–7-lobed, lobes green, narrowly ovate. |
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. |
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Pedicels | bracteoles 8–10 mm, margins entire. |
bracteoles 10–40 mm, margins pinnately lobed. |
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Flowers | calyx 8–10 mm, tube 0 mm, apex 2-fid, cleft 0.5–1 mm; corolla pale yellow to yellow with purple markings, 8–9 mm, throat 4 mm diam., adaxial lip 3–4 mm, ca. equal to and appressed to adaxial; stamens 4, filaments hairy, fertile pollen sacs 2 per filament, unequal. |
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. |
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Capsules | oblong-ovoid, 5–8 mm. |
oblong-lanceoloid, 6–12 mm. |
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Seeds | 4–6, dark brown, ovoid to narrowly reniform, 2.5–3 mm, striate. |
15–20, light brown, ovoid to reniform, 2–2.5 mm, reticulate and papillate. |
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2n | = 28. |
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Cordylanthus pringlei |
Cordylanthus kingii |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Sep. | |||||||||
Habitat | Dry openings in chaparral and mixed-evergreen forests. | |||||||||
Elevation | 300–1900 m. (1000–6200 ft.) | |||||||||
Distribution |
CA |
CA; NV; UT
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Discussion | Cordylanthus pringlei grows in the Coast Range of California. The species is distinctive because of its flabelliform inflorescence bracts and relatively short corollas. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 3 (3 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. | FNA vol. 17, p. 672. | ||||||||
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Name authority | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 19: 94. (1883) | S. Watson: Botany (Fortieth Parallel), 233, 460, plate 22, figs. 3–6. (1871) | ||||||||
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