familyOrobanchaceae
genusCordylanthus
speciesCordylanthus wrightii
subspeciesCordylanthus wrightii subsp. kaibabensis
Cordylanthus wrightii subsp. kaibabensis
Syst. Bot. Monogr. 10: 87, fig. 35i–n. 1986.
Common names: Kaibab Plateau bird’s-beak
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 678.
Stems puberulent and glandular-puberulent to glabrate. Leaves 5–7-lobed. Spikes 5–12-flowered, 25–40 mm; bracts 4–10. Pedicels: bracteoles 20–25 mm, margins pinnately lobed, lobes 5–7. Flowers: corolla pale-yellow with purple markings, 20–30 mm.
Phenology: Flowering Aug–Sep.
Habitat: Rocky openings, pine-juniper woodlands.
Elevation: 1900–2000 m.
Discussion
Subspecies kaibabensis is known from the Kaibab Plateau. Chuang and Heckard suggested that it may be derived from a past hybridization of subsp. tenuifolius and Cordylanthus kingii subsp. kingii.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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appressed +
equal +
downward +
gray +
hypogynous +
2-fid +
purple;green +
absent +
4;10 +
absent +
20mm;25mm +
symmetric +
lanceolate +
loculicidal +
oblong +
Kaibab Plateau bird’s-beak +
bilabiate +
pale-yellow +
curved +
club--shaped +
Ariz. +
straight +
absent +
hairy +
capitate +
bisexual +
2-12-flowered +
simple +
alternate +
deciduous +
cauline +
absent +
5-7-lobed +
triangular +
lobed +
revolute +
parietal +
axile +
superior +
anatropous +
campylotropous-like +
absent +
hypogynous +
connate +
absent +
2-carpellate +
fertile +
equal +
Syst. Bot. Monogr. +
1986 +
reticulate +
brown +
oblong-ovoid +
connate +
Endemic +
5-12-flowered +
capitate +
didynamous +
adnate +
subequal +
equal +
absent +
decumbent +
not fleshy +
expanded +
absent +
Cordylanthus wrightii subsp. kaibabensis +
Cordylanthus wrightii +
subspecies +
folded +
annual +
hemiparasitic +
fleshy +
absent +