Cordylanthus tenuis subsp. pallescens |
Cordylanthus tenuis |
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pale bird's-beak, pallid bird's beak |
slender bird's-beak, sticky birdbeak |
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Stems | sparsely puberulent and/or glandular-puberulent and, often, pilose. |
erect to ascending, 20–80(–120) cm, glabrous or sparsely glandular-puberulent, puberulent, and/or pilose. |
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Leaves | yellow-green, entire or 3-lobed, lobes linear to linear-lanceolate. |
puberulent, often pilose, or glabrous; proximal 20–60 mm, margins entire or 3-lobed, lobes 0.5–1 mm wide; distal 10–40 × 0.3–2 mm, margins entire. |
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Inflorescences | 4–6-flowered; bracts yellow-green, 3-lobed or entire, sparsely pilose with long hairs. |
spikes, 2–7-flowered, or flowers solitary; bracts 1–4, 5–20 mm, margins entire or 3-lobed, lobes green or purple distally, narrowly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, apex rounded. |
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Pedicels | bracteoles 10–20 mm, margins entire or toothed. |
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Flowers | corolla 10–15 mm. |
calyx 10–20 mm, tube 0 mm, apex 2-fid, cleft 1 mm; corolla pale yellow, marked with purple along veins and galea, 10–20 mm, throat 6–8 mm diam., abaxial lip 4–6 mm, ca. equal to and appressed to adaxial; stamens 4, filaments hairy, fertile pollen sacs 2 per filament, equal. |
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Capsules | narrowly ovoid, 5–10 mm. |
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Seeds | 6–16, dark brown, ovoid to rhomboid, 1.5–2.5 mm, striate. |
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2n | = 28. |
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Cordylanthus tenuis subsp. pallescens |
Cordylanthus tenuis |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Sep. | |||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Open volcanic alluvium. | |||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 900–1200 m. (3000–3900 ft.) | |||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
CA |
CA; OR
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Discussion | Subspecies pallescens grows in Siskiyou County near Black Butte and the town of Weed (B. L. Wilson et al. 2014). It is similar to subsp. viscidus, differing in its yellow-green color and inflorescences with four to six pale flowers. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 5 (5 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 677. | FNA vol. 17, p. 676. | ||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | C. pallescens | Adenostegia tenuis | ||||||||||||||||
Name authority | (Pennell) T. I. Chuang & Heckard: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 10: 55. (1986) | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 383. (1868) | ||||||||||||||||
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