Darlingtonia

Torrey

Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 6(4): 4, plate 12. 1853, name conserved ,.

Common names: California pitcher plant cobra-lily or plant
Etymology: For William Darlington, 1782–1863, Philadelphia botanist
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 8. Treatment on page 349. Mentioned on page 350.
 TaxonIllustrator 
FNA8 P40a Halesia carolina.jpegHalesia
Halesia carolina
Halesia diptera
Darlingtonia
Darlingtonia californica
Barbara Alongi
Barbara Alongi
Barbara Alongi
Linny Heagy
Linny Heagy

Herbs colonial, stoloniferous; rhizomes horizontal. Pitchers persistent, erect, monomorphic, twisted through 90–270°, yellowish green, often suffused with red, distally enlarging into globose head, firm, surfaces glabrous; orifice round, facing ground, not covered by hood; hood arising adaxially on rim of orifice, pendulous, fishtail-shaped, flattened or slightly twisted, 2-lobed, lobes widely divergent laterally from pitcher axis, yellowish green to reddish, base narrowed to neck, apex acute to rounded. Phyllodia absent. Scapes 1, slightly longer to much longer than pitchers; bracts usually 9, alternate along scape, clasping, erect or spreading, lanceolate, apex acute. Flowers odorless; sepals persistent, lanceovate to oblanceolate, margins entire, apex acute; petals deciduous, touching, forming curtain surrounding stamens and pistil, pendulous, ovate, each notched beyond middle (distally) so that indentations of adjacent petals align forming 5 holes in corolla, margins entire, apex acuminate; stamens 15, distinct; filaments uniform in length; anthers basifixed; ovary turbinate, shallowly 10-lobed, apex depressed; style terminal, arising from depressed apex of ovary, terminating in 5 radially diverging, filiform arms covered with stigmatic cells laterally. Capsules obconic, finely tuberculate, acropetally dehiscent. Seeds ca. 1000, long-clavate, not keeled, long-papillate. x = 15.

Distribution

nw North America

Discussion

Chrysamphora Greene

Species 1: nw North America.

Species 1

Selected References

None.

"winged" is not a number."uniform" is not a number.

... more about "Darlingtonia"
depressed;depressed;acuminate;acute;acute;acute;rounded +
filiform +
T. Lawrence Mellichamp +
Torrey +
narrowed +
costate +  and purple-veined +
blotched +, green +, pink +, red +, purplish +, reddish +  and yellow-green +
spreading +  and erect +
lanceolate +
tuberculate +
California pitcher plant +, cobra-lily or +  and plant +
nw North America +
For William Darlington, 1782–1863, Philadelphia botanist +
odorless +
loculicidal +
tuberculate +
globose;ovoid or obconic shallowly 5-lobed or 10-lobed +
suffused with red +  and yellowish green +
globose +
enlarging +
pendulous +  and arising +
2-lobed +, flattened +  and fishtail--shaped +
rosette-forming +
yellowish green;reddish +
axile +  and parietal +
10-lobed +  and turbinate +
tenuinucellate +  and bitegmic +
deciduous +
distinct +
notched +  and ovate +
twisted +  and monomorphic +
Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. +
deltate +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
much longer +  and longer +
longer to much +
long-papillate +
not keeled;long-clavate +
persistent +
lanceovate;oblanceolate +
suffused with red +  and yellowish green +
enlarging +
Darlingtonia +
Sarraceniaceae +
herb +  and colonial +