Castilleja kraliana

J. R. Allison

Castanea 66: 159, fig. 3. 2001.

Common names: Kral’s paintbrush
EndemicConservation concern
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 617. Mentioned on page 569.

Herbs, annual or biennial, (1.6–) 2–4 (–4.9) dm; with fibrous-roots. Stems solitary or few, erect, from a basal rosette that usually persists into anthesis, unbranched or few-branched from mid-stem, glabrate proximally, hairy distally, hairs moderately dense, spreading, long, soft, mixed with short-stipitate-glandular ones. Leaves: basal forming a persistent rosette, often withered at anthesis, usually suffused to varying degrees with red, sometimes green, oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, 2–6 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, flat, 0-lobed, apex obtuse to broadly rounded to sometimes acute or subtruncate; cauline green, sometimes proximal suffused with red or purple, linear to linear-lanceolate or linear-oblanceolate, 1.1–6.5 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, flat, 0–3 (–5) -lobed, apex usually acute, rarely obtuse; lobes erect to ascending, narrowly oblong to linear or narrowly lanceolate, to 1.8 cm, apex acute. Inflorescences (2–) 4–24 (–33) × 2–4 cm; bracts proximally greenish, distally bright-yellow, rarely light orange, proximal narrowly lanceolate, leaflike, distal oblong to broadly rounded-oblanceolate, continuing to grow after anthesis and becoming greener and more leaflike, lateral lobes, if present, growing even more than central lobe, 0–5-lobed; lobes erect, triangular or lanceolate, sometimes linear, short or medium length, arising above mid length, proximal bract apex acute, distal rounded, rarely central lobe shallowly toothed. Calyces proximally whitish or pale green, often aging purple, distally yellow, (13–) 15–18 mm; abaxial and adaxial clefts 4–7 mm, 40–50% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 0–0.2 mm, ca. 0% of calyx length; lobes curved, oblong, apex rounded to truncate, sometimes emarginate. Corollas straight or slightly curved, (15–) 17–23 mm; tube 8–11 mm; abaxial lip rarely exserted, beak exserted; beak adaxially green or yellow-green, 5–7 mm, margins yellow or yellow-green; abaxial lip ascending, deep green, slightly inflated, 2–3 mm, 20–30% as long as beak, apex rounded; teeth ascending, green, whitish, or yellow, 0.5–2 mm.


Phenology: Flowering (Mar–)Apr–Jun(–Jul).
Habitat: Full sun or partial shade, outcrops and glades, forest edges, river bluffs, Ketona dolomite.
Elevation: 90–150 m.

Discussion

Castilleja kraliana is restricted to dolomite glades in Bibb County, which is a local center of endemism near the Cahaba River. Castilleja kraliana has mostly entire, bright yellow bracts and calyces 13–18 mm, and differs from the related C. coccinea, which has deeply lobed and red, rarely yellow, bracts and calyces 17–28 mm.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"dm" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.

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0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
rounded +, rounded to truncate +, acute +, obtuse +, subtruncate +  and broadly rounded +
J. Mark Egger +, Peter F. Zika +, Barbara L. Wilson +, Richard E. Brainerd +  and Nick Otting +
J. R. Allison +
oblanceolate;oblong-oblanceolate +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br />) +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
not +, leathery +  and fleshy +
light orange;bright-yellow;greenish +
1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
yellow +, pale green +  and whitish +
2-lobed +, lobed +  and tubular +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (1.8 cm18 mm <br />0.018 m <br />) +
taprooted;fibrous-rooted or rhizomatous +
fleshy +  and woody +
Kral’s paintbrush +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (1.7 cm17 mm <br />0.017 m <br />) +
purple +, pink +, red +, orange +, yellow +, white +, green +  and pale greenish +
curved +  and straight +
divided +  and tubular +
1.7 cm17 mm <br />0.017 m <br /> (2.3 cm23 mm <br />0.023 m <br />) +
0-5-lobed +, oblong +  and broadly rounded-oblanceolate +
90–150 m. +
spreading-hairy +  and glabrous +
2 +  and 1 +
indehiscent +, septicidal +, loculicidal +  and dehiscence +
Full sun or partial shade, outcrops and glades, forest edges, river bluffs, Ketona dolomite. +
few-branched +  and unbranched +
hairy +  and glabrate +
24 cm240 mm <br />0.24 m <br /> (33 cm330 mm <br />0.33 m <br />) +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (24 cm240 mm <br />0.24 m <br />) +
axillary +  and terminal +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
spiral +, whorled +, alternate +  and opposite +
, +  and suffused with red or suffused with purple +
deciduous +
linear;linear-lanceolate or linear-oblanceolate +
1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br /> (6.5 cm65 mm <br />0.065 m <br />) +
not fleshy +
arising +, erect +  and ascending +
3 (?) +, 2 (?) +  and 4 (?) +
oblong +, toothed +, lanceolate +, triangular +, narrowly oblong +  and linear or narrowly lanceolate +
subequal +
yellow-green +  and yellow +
0-3(-5)-lobed +, plane +  and 0-lobed +
few-branched +  and unbranched +
short-stipitate-glandular +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
campylotropous-like +
Flowering (Mar–)Apr–Jun(–Jul). +
stramineous +
20 +  and 100 +
trapezoidal +, oblong-ovoid +, pyramidal +  and ovoid +
Endemic +  and Conservation concern +
non-secund +  and secund +
elongate +
subequal +
sprawling +  and prostrate +
aerial +  and subterranean +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
not fleshy +
2-lobed +  and entire +
Euchroma +  and Oncorhynchus +
Castilleja kraliana +
Castilleja +
species +
yellow +, whitish +  and green +
shallow;deep +
reduced +
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0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
biennial +  and annual +