Keckiella rothrockii

(A. Gray) Straw

Brittonia 19: 203. 1967.

Common names: Rothrock’s keckiella
Endemic
Basionym: Penstemon rothrockii A. Gray in A. Gray et al. Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 2(1): 260. 1878
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 77. Mentioned on page 76.

Stems erect, 3–6 dm, densely short-hairy when young, not glaucous. Leaves subopposite or whorled (3s), subsessile; blade oblanceolate or lanceolate to widely obovate, 5–16 mm, margins entire or serrulate, sometimes with 3–7 undulations instead of teeth. Inflorescences spikelike racemes, short-hairy. Flowers: caly× 4–7 mm, lobes lanceolate; corolla brownish yellow, pale-yellow, or cream, purple or reddish brown-lined, 10–15 mm, tube plus distinct throat 7–11 mm, longer than adaxial lip, adaxial lip 4–5 mm; pollen-sacs 0.8–1.1 mm; staminode glabrous, usually included.

Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Corollas 10–12 mm, glabrescent; leaves canescent. Keckiella rothrockii var. rothrockii
1 Corollas 13–15 mm, sparsely hairy; leaves glabrescent. Keckiella rothrockii var. jacintensis

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0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
David C. Michener +  and Noel H. Holmgren +
(A. Gray) Straw +
alternate +, opposite +, whorled +, helical +  and subopposite +
Penstemon rothrockii +
lanceolate;widely obovate +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.6 cm16 mm <br />0.016 m <br />) +
not +, leathery +  and fleshy +
whorled +, subopposite +  and opposite +
Rothrock’s keckiella +
reddish brown-lined +, cream +, pale-yellow +  and brownish yellow +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
scale-like +  and not needlelike +
Calif. +  and Nev. +
drupe-like +
curved +  and straight +
eglandular-hairy +
1 +  and 4 +
loculicidal +  and septicidal +
white-membranous +
terminal +  and axillary +
whorled +  and subopposite +
drought-deciduous +
lanceolate +
serrulate +  and entire +
toothed +  and entire +
axile +  and parietal +
basal +, apical +  and superior +
tenuinucellate +, unitegmic +  and hemitropous +
campylotropous +, hemianatropous +  and anatropous +
5 +  and 4 +
0.08 cm0.8 mm <br />8.0e-4 m <br /> (0.11 cm1.1 mm <br />0.0011 m <br />) +
spikelike +
minute +
short-tubular +
filamentous +
sprawling +, creeping +  and prostrate +
not glaucous +  and short-hairy +
Keckiella rothrockii +
Keckiella +
species +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
gibbous +  and not spurred +
biennial +, perennial +  and annual +
shrub +  and subshrub +