Keckiella breviflora
Keckiella corymbosa
bush beardtongue, gaping keckiella
red beardtongue, redwood keckiella, redwood penstemon
erect, spreading with age, 5–20 dm, glabrous when young, glaucous.
spreading to erect, 3–6 dm, glabrous or hairy when young.
opposite, subsessile;
blade oblanceolate or lanceolate, 10–40 mm, margins 4–12-toothed.
opposite;
blade oblanceolate or lanceolate to narrowly obovate or ovate, 10–35 mm, base wedge-shaped, margins entire or 3–5-toothed.
thyrses, glabrous or sticky-hairy.
corymbs, glandular-hairy and densely coarse-hairy.
calyx 4–8 mm, lobes lanceolate to ovate;
corolla white or cream, lobes sometimes rose tinged, lined purplish or pinkish, 12–18 mm, tube plus distinct throat 4–8 mm, shorter than adaxial lip, adaxial lip 8–12 mm;
pollen sacs 0.6–0.8 mm;
staminode glabrous, slightly exserted.
calyx 6.4–11 mm, lobes lanceolate, sometimes ovate to oblanceolate;
corolla pink to red, 22–40 mm, tube plus indistinct throat 17–22 mm, adaxial lip 9–15 mm;
pollen sacs 0.9–1 mm;
staminode densely yellow-hairy, included.
= 16.
Keckiella breviflora
Keckiella corymbosa
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Keckiella corymbosa occurs in the coastal ranges from the Central Coast to the North Coast regions of California. D. D. Keck (1936) argued that indument variation has no coherent pattern within K. corymbosa. D. C. Michener (1982) proposed that widespread introgression involving multiple species might be responsible.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Calyces glandular. | var. breviflora |
1. Calyces glabrous. | var. glabrisepala |
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