Flora of North America species comparison

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Seymeria pectinata

comb seymeria, combleaf senna, Piedmont blacksenna
Stems

pubescent to villous, eglandular.
Leaves

blade margins pinnatifid to 2-pinnatifid, pinnules lanceolate, surfaces not scabrid.
Pedicels

3–5 mm.
Flowers

calyx lobes lanceolate;

corolla yellow, sometimes with maroon spots on adaxial lobes, externally pubescent, internally pubescent between lobes and in a ring at stamen insertion;

filaments tomentose to lanate distally, anthers dehiscing to 1/4 length.
Capsules

symmetric, pyriform, glabrescent to densely tomentose.
Seeds

irregularly shaped, wings present.
2n

= 26.

Seymeria pectinata
Distribution
from FNA
AL; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; SC
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Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Key
1. Stems pubescent to villous; capsules densely tomentose.
subsp. pectinata
1. Stems pubescent to puberulous; capsules glabrescent to pubescent.
subsp. peninsularis
Source FNA vol. 17, p. 564.
Parent taxa Orobanchaceae > Seymeria
Sibling taxa
S. bipinnatisecta, S. cassioides, S. falcata, S. scabra
Subordinate taxa
S. pectinata subsp. pectinata, S. pectinata subsp. peninsularis
Synonyms Afzelia pectinata
Name authority Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 2: 737. (1813)
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