Castilleja collegiorum

J. M. Egger & S. Malaby

Phytoneuron 2015-33: 1, figs. 1–3, 9[left]. 2015.

Common names: Collegial paintbrush
EndemicConservation concern
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 598. Mentioned on page 574, 599.

Herbs, perennial, 1.1–2.8 dm; from a woody caudex; with a taproot. Stems few-to-many, erect or ascending, short-decumbent at base, unbranched, hairs dense, spreading to erect, ± short, soft, usually stipitate-glandular, longer ones sometimes eglandular. Leaves pale green to dull reddish maroon, linear to linear-lanceolate, 0.8–3.5 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, slightly involute, 0–3 (–5) -lobed, apex acuminate; lateral lobes ascending to spreading, linear-lanceolate, usually arising from distal 1/2 of blade, usually narrower than central lobe, apex acuminate to acute. Inflorescences 10–40 (–80 with age) × 0.5–2.5 cm; bracts pale cream to pale greenish yellow throughout, often partly to entirely suffused with dull reddish purple to maroon, especially proximally, along veins, and with age, sometimes distal apices pale, dullish red, lanceolate to ovate, usually 3-lobed, central lobe sometimes with short teeth; lobes spreading-ascending, linear-lanceolate, short to medium length, arising at or above mid length, apex acute. Calyces pale cream to pale greenish yellow, sometimes reddish violet to maroon on distal segments and/or with a thin vertical strip of pale reddish violet to maroon along veins, 11–20 mm; abaxial and adaxial clefts 7–12 mm, 60% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 0.5–1 mm, 5–10% of calyx length; lobes triangular, apex acute to obtuse. Corollas straight, 16.5–25 mm; tube 12–18 mm; beak scarcely exserted, adaxially pale green to yellowish, 3–7 mm; abaxial lip green, not inflated, grooved, 2.5 mm, 33–50% as long as beak; teeth slightly incurved, white, 1 mm.


Phenology: Flowering late Jun–Jul.
Habitat: Hummocks and margins of moist to wet meadows.
Elevation: 1700–1800 m.

Discussion

Castilleja collegiorum is endemic to a large meadow system in the southern Cascade Range of Klamath County. It is similar to C. cryptantha in Washington and C. lemmonii in California but differs from both in structural details of the inflorescence, calyx, bracts, and leaves.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"usually narrower" is not a number.

... more about "Castilleja collegiorum"
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
not inflated +
2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br /> (?) +
red +  and pale +
acute +  and obtuse +
J. Mark Egger +, Peter F. Zika +, Barbara L. Wilson +, Richard E. Brainerd +  and Nick Otting +
J. M. Egger & S. Malaby +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
not +, leathery +  and fleshy +
reddish purple;maroon +
violet +  and maroon +
2-lobed +, lobed +  and tubular +
1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
taprooted;fibrous-rooted or rhizomatous +
fleshy +  and woody +
Collegial paintbrush +
purple +, pink +, red +, orange +, yellow +, white +, green +  and pale greenish +
divided +  and tubular +
1.65 cm16.5 mm <br />0.0165 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
1700–1800 m. +
spreading-hairy +  and glabrous +
2 +  and 1 +
indehiscent +, septicidal +, loculicidal +  and dehiscence +
Hummocks and margins of moist to wet meadows. +
spreading +  and erect +
stipitate-glandular +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br />) +
axillary +  and terminal +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
arising +, ascending +  and spreading +
linear-lanceolate +
spiral +, whorled +, alternate +  and opposite +
pale green +  and dull reddish maroon +
deciduous +
basal +  and cauline +
linear;linear-lanceolate +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (3.5 cm35 mm <br />0.035 m <br />) +
not fleshy +
above mid lobes +, arising +  and spreading-ascending +
3 (?) +, 2 (?) +  and 4 (?) +
triangular +  and linear-lanceolate +
subequal +
0-3(-5)-lobed +  and plane +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
campylotropous-like +
Flowering late Jun–Jul. +
Phytoneuron +
stramineous +
20 +  and 100 +
trapezoidal +, oblong-ovoid +, pyramidal +  and ovoid +
Endemic +  and Conservation concern +
non-secund +  and secund +
elongate +
subequal +
aerial +  and subterranean +
ascending +  and erect +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
not fleshy +
2-lobed +  and entire +
pale reddish +
Euchroma +  and Oncorhynchus +
Castilleja collegiorum +
Castilleja +
species +
shallow;deep +
reduced +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (?) +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (1.8 cm18 mm <br />0.018 m <br />) +