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Kaibab bird's beak, Kaibab Plateau bird's-beak

Stems

puberulent and glandular-puberulent to glabrate.

Leaves

5–7-lobed.

Spikes

5–12-flowered, 25–40 mm;

bracts 4–10.

Pedicels

bracteoles 20–25 mm, margins pinnately lobed, lobes 5–7.

Flowers

corolla pale yellow with purple markings, 20–30 mm.

Cordylanthus wrightii subsp. kaibabensis

Phenology Flowering Aug–Sep.
Habitat Rocky openings, pine-juniper woodlands.
Elevation 1900–2000 m. (6200–6600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ
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Discussion

Subspecies kaibabensis is known from the Kaibab Plateau. Chuang and Heckard suggested that it may be derived from a past hybridization of subsp. tenuifolius and Cordylanthus kingii subsp. kingii.

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

Source FNA vol. 17, p. 678.
Parent taxa Orobanchaceae > Cordylanthus > Cordylanthus wrightii
Sibling taxa
C. wrightii subsp. tenuifolius, C. wrightii subsp. wrightii
Name authority T. I. Chuang & Heckard: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 10: 87, fig. 35i–n. (1986)
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