Flora of North America species comparison

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Pityopus

pine-foot, pityopus
Habit Herbs, achlorophyllous, heterotrophic.
Stems

absent.
Leaves

absent.
Inflorescences

racemes or cymes, erect at emergence from soil, axis fleshy but not fibrous, usually not persistent after seed dispersal, yellowish to cream, 0.5–2 cm diam. proximal to proximalmost flower.
Pedicels

erect, elongate in fruit;

bracteoles absent.
Flowers

radially symmetric, erect;

sepals 4(–5), distinct, lateral pair clasping corolla, canoe-shaped, other pair appressed to corolla, flattened;

petals 4(–5), distinct, yellowish to cream, without basal tubercles, (abaxial surfaces glabrate, adaxial surfaces densely hairy), corolla tubular-campanulate;

intrastaminal nectary disc present;

stamens 8, included;

filaments ± uniformly slender, pubescent;

anthers horseshoe-shaped, without awns, without tubules, dehiscent by 1 slit;

pistil (4–)5-carpellate;

ovary 1-locular;

placentation intruded-parietal;

style straight, stout;

stigma umbilicate, subtended by ring of crowded hairs.
Fruits

baccate, erect, (fleshy), indehiscent, (axis fleshy).
Seeds

25–100, ovoid, not winged.

Pityopus
Distribution
from USDA
w United States
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 1: w United States.

Species 1

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 394. Author: Gary D. Wallace.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Monotropoideae
Subordinate taxa
P. californicus
Name authority Small: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 29: 16. 1914 ,
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