Keckiella breviflora
Brittonia 19: 203. 1967.
Common names: Bush beardtongue
Endemic
Basionym: Penstemon breviflorus Lindley Edwards's Bot. Reg. 23: plate 1946. 1837
Stems erect, spreading with age, 5–20 dm, glabrous when young, glaucous. Leaves opposite, subsessile; blade oblanceolate or lanceolate, 10–40 mm, margins 4–12-toothed. Inflorescences thyrses, glabrous or sticky-hairy. Flowers: caly× 4–8 mm, lobes lanceolate to ovate; corolla white or cream, lobes sometimes rose tinged, lined purplish or pinkish, 12–18 mm, tube plus distinct throat 4–8 mm, shorter than adaxial lip, adaxial lip 8–12 mm; pollen-sacs 0.6–0.8 mm; staminode glabrous, slightly exserted.
Distribution
Calif., Nev.
Discussion
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
Selected References
None.
Key
| 1 | Calyces glandular. | Keckiella breviflora var. breviflora |
| 1 | Calyces glabrous. | Keckiella breviflora var. glabrisepala |
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hooded +
hypogynous +
simple +
lanceolate;oblanceolate +
absent +
absent +
reduced +
symmetric +
Bush beardtongue +
bilabiate +
symmetric +
tubular +
drupe-like +
absent +
eglandular-hairy +
×4-8 +
bisexual +
packed +
white-membranous +
subsessile +
opposite +
drought-deciduous +
lanceolate;ovate +
? (?) +
4-12-toothed +
small +
red-purple +
axile +
spiciform +
absent +
hypogynous +
connate +
absent +
absent +
2-carpellate +
explanate +
Brittonia +
1967 +
spikelike +
absent +
brown +
20;100 +
ovoid +
symmetric +
connate +
short-tubular +
Endemic +
didynamous +
adnate +
exserted +
absent +
glabrous +
filamentous +
equal +
climbing +
spreading;erect +
absent +
capitate +
absent +
Keckiella breviflora +
Keckiella +
species +
distinct +
shorter +
autotrophic +
fleshy +
absent +