Cordylanthus pilosus

A. Gray

Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 382. 1868.

Common names: Hairy bird’s-beak
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 674. Mentioned on page 670.

Stems erect or ascending, 10–90 (–120) cm, densely puberulent and glandular-puberulent, and pilose. Leaves puberulent and pilose; proximal 15–40 mm, margins 3-lobed, lobes 0.1–0.5 mm wide; distal 10–25 × 0.1–0.3 mm, margins entire. Inflorescences spikes, 2-flowered or 3-flowered, or flowers solitary; bracts 1–4, 10–20 mm, margins entire or 3-lobed, lobes green or purple distally, linear-lanceolate. Pedicels: bracteoles 15–20 mm, margins entire or toothed. Flowers: calyx 15–20 mm, tube 0–1 mm, apex 2-fid, cleft 0.5–1 mm; corolla pale-yellow to yellow-green, streaked and spotted with maroon, 15–20 mm, tube 5–10 mm, throat 5–8 mm diam., abaxial lip 5–10 mm, ca. equal to and appressed to adaxial; stamens 4, filaments hairy, fertile pollen-sacs 2 per filament, equal. Capsules oblong-ovoid, 6–10 mm. Seeds 10–18, dark-brown, ovoid, 1.5–2.5 mm, striate. 2n = 28.

Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Inflorescence bracts entire. Cordylanthus pilosus subsp. pilosus
1 Inflorescence bracts 3-lobed. Cordylanthus pilosus subsp. trifidus
... more about "Cordylanthus pilosus"
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
rounded +  and galeate +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
Kerry A. Barringer +
A. Gray +
not leathery +  and not fleshy +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
spathe-like +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
oblong-ovoid +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
Hairy bird’s-beak +
streaked and spotted with maroon +, pale-yellow +  and yellow-green +
club--shaped +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
0.1mm +  and 0.3mm +
2 +  and 1 +
indehiscent +, septicidal +, loculicidal +  and dehiscence +
axillary +  and terminal +
3-flowered +  and 2-flowered +
deciduous +
pilose +  and puberulent +
purple +  and green +
linear-lanceolate +
0.01 cm0.1 mm <br />1.0e-4 m <br /> (0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br />) +
toothed +, entire +  and 3-lobed +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
campylotropous-like +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts +
dark-brown +
10 +  and 18 +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
subequal +
90 cm900 mm <br />0.9 m <br /> (120 cm1,200 mm <br />1.2 m <br />) +
aerial +  and subterranean +
ascending +  and erect +
pilose +, glandular-puberulent +  and puberulent +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (90 cm900 mm <br />0.9 m <br />) +
not fleshy +
expanded +
Adenostegia +
Cordylanthus pilosus +
Cordylanthus +
species +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +