Chloropyron molle

(A. Gray) A. Heller

Muhlenbergia 3: 134. 1907.

EndemicConservation concern
Basionym: Cordylanthus mollis A. Gray Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 384. 1868
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 668. Mentioned on page 666, 669.

Stems erect or spreading, 10–40 cm, puberulent or hispid, hairs glandular and eglandular. Leaf-blades narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 5–30 × 2–10 mm, margins entire or 7-lobed, lateral-veins conspicuous. Spikes 2–15 cm; bracts sometimes purple distally, lanceolate to ovate, 15–25 mm, margins pinnately 3–7-lobed. Flowers: calyx 15–20 mm; corolla greenish white, white, or pale-yellow, 15–20 mm, lobes 5–7 mm, often marked with dark red (especially toward base); stamens 2, each with 2 pollen-sacs; staminodes 2. Capsules narrowly ovoid, 6–10 mm. Seeds 20–30, dark-brown, ovoid to reniform, 1–3 mm, without abaxial crest.

Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

The coastal and inland subspecies intergrade.

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Branches from distal to base; seeds 2–3 mm; corolla tubes densely tomentose. Chloropyron molle subsp. molle
1 Branches from near base; seeds 1–1.5 mm; corolla tubes sparsely tomentose. Chloropyron molle subsp. hispidum
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rounded +  and galeate +
Kerry A. Barringer +
(A. Gray) A. Heller +
Cordylanthus mollis +
not leathery +  and not fleshy +
lanceolate +  and ovate +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
spathe-like +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
not elongate +
pale-yellow +, white +  and greenish white +
club--shaped +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
pilose +  and glabrous +
2 +  and 1 +
indehiscent +, septicidal +, loculicidal +  and dehiscence +
axillary +  and terminal +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
narrowly lanceolate +  and lanceolate +
deciduous +
pink;purple-red +
narrowly triangular +  and triangular +
3-7-lobed +, 7-lobed +  and entire +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
campylotropous-like +
Muhlenbergia +
dark-brown +
20 +  and 30 +
ovoid +  and reniform +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
Endemic +  and Conservation concern +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br />) +
subequal +
aerial +  and subterranean +
spreading +  and erect +
hispid +  and puberulent +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br />) +
not fleshy +
expanded +
Chloropyron molle +
Chloropyron +
species +