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Chloropyron molle
Muhlenbergia 3: 134. 1907.
EndemicConservation concern
Basionym: Cordylanthus mollis A. Gray Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 384. 1868
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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downward +
gray +
hypogynous +
purple +
absent +
absent +
symmetric +
spathe-like +
loculicidal +
ovoid +
not elongate +
bilabiate +
curved +
club--shaped +
Calif. +
straight +
absent +
bisexual +
eglandular +
conspicuous +
2mm;10mm +
simple +
alternate +
deciduous +
cauline +
absent +
pink;purple-red +
? (?) +
erect +
not revolute +
parietal +
axile +
superior +
anatropous +
campylotropous-like +
absent +
hypogynous +
connate +
absent +
2-carpellate +
approximate +
Muhlenbergia +
1907 +
dark-brown +
connate +
didynamous +
adnate +
subequal +
equal +
peglike +
absent +
not fleshy +
expanded +
absent +
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annual +
hemiparasitic +
fleshy +
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