Castilleja scabrida var. barnebyana
Intermount. Fl. 4: 488. 1984.
Common names: Barneby’s paintbrush
Endemic
Basionyms: Castilleja barnebyana Eastwood Leafl. W. Bot. 3: 88. 1941
Stems greenish. Leaves greenish, rarely reddish purple to grayish green, 0–3 (–5) -lobed, lobes spreading-ascending, sometimes divergent, linear. Bracts: distally bright red, sometimes orange-red or brick-red; lobe apex acute. Calyces: lateral clefts 3–6 mm. Corollas: tube (12–) 14–20 mm; beak adaxially green to yellow.
Phenology: Flowering May–Jul.
Habitat: Sun or shade, rocky slopes, ledges, ridges, sagebrush steppes, limestone.
Elevation: 2100–2600 m.
Discussion
Variety barnebyana grows on limestone substrates in the mountains of eastern Nevada and western Utah. It is frequently parasitic on Petrophyton caespitosum, a mat-forming plant from which the stems of the Castilleja often emerge, though the relationship is not obligate.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
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subpetaloid +
green +
visible +
reduced +
joined +
straight +
directed +
gray +
hypogynous +
small +
small +
exserted +
brick-red;orange-red;bright red +
absent +
absent +
symmetric +
colored +
loculicidal +
taprooted;fibrous-rooted or rhizomatous +
alternate +
reduced +
Barneby’s paintbrush +
bilabiate +
straight +
absent +
bisexual +
eglandular +
stellate +
whitish +
stiff +
spreading +
stipitate-glandular +
2.5cm;10cm +
2.5cm;5cm +
slightly deeper +
absent +
simple +
deciduous +
absent +
0-3(-5)-lobed +
not fleshy +
long +
spreading-ascending +
variable +
parietal +
axile +
superior +
anatropous +
campylotropous-like +
absent +
hypogynous +
connate +
absent +
2-carpellate +
unequal +
colored +
Intermount. Fl. +
1984 +
branched +
stout +
shiny +
connate +
Endemic +
elongate +
didynamous +
adnate +
subequal +
equal +
absent +
unbranched +
greenish +
ascending +
several +
not fleshy +
capitate +
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Castilleja scabrida var. barnebyana +
Castilleja scabrida +
variety +
green +
shallow;deep +
incurved +
reduced +
perennial +
hemiparasitic +
fleshy +
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