Synthyris ritteriana

Eastwood

Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 3, 1: 123, plate 9, fig. 2. 1898.

Common names: Ritters’ kittentail
Endemic
Synonyms: Besseya ritteriana (Eastwood) Rydberg Veronica ritteriana (Eastwood) M. M. Martínez Ort. & Albach
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 303. Mentioned on page 297, 304.

Leaves strictly annual, disintegrating in 1st year; blade broadly elliptic to lanceolate, 25+ mm wide, leathery, base truncate to tapered, margins crenate, teeth apices acute to rounded, surfaces hairy; basal veins extending through proximal 1/2 of blade, lateral-veins 5–12 on each side of midvein. Racemes erect, to 40 cm in fruit; sterile bracts 10–40, ovate-spatulate, largest 1+ cm; flowers 100+, densely aggregated (separating in fruit). Sepals 4. Petals 3 (or 4), apex entire or erose; corolla yellow, bilabiate, ellipsoid, longer than calyx, puberulent on margins, lateral and abaxial petals of abaxial lip connate 1/2+ their lengths, abaxial and adaxial petal lips basally adnate to stamens, tube absent. Stamens inserted on receptacle, but abaxial and adaxial petal lips basally adnate to stamens. Ovaries glabrous or sparsely hairy at apex; ovules 17–40. Capsules glabrous.


Phenology: Flowering May–Aug; fruiting Jun–Oct.
Habitat: Moist subalpine or alpine meadows.
Elevation: 2100–3800 m.

Discussion

Synthyris ritteriana is known from the San Juan and La Plata mountains, and adjacent areas of Gunnison and Montrose counties on San Juan and Hansen tuffs.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

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... more about "Synthyris ritteriana"
erose +  and entire +
Larry D. Hufford +
Eastwood +
alternate +, opposite +, whorled +, helical +  and subopposite +
truncate;tapered +
broadly elliptic;lanceolate +
ovate-spatulate +
largest +
campanulate +
Ritters’ kittentail +
ellipsoid +
boat-shaped +
drupe-like +
2100–3800 m. +
curved +  and straight +
1 +  and 4 +
Moist subalpine or alpine meadows. +
disintegrating +
4 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
ovate;lanceolate +
basal +, apical +  and superior +
hairy +  and glabrous +
tenuinucellate +, unitegmic +  and hemitropous +
campylotropous +, hemianatropous +  and anatropous +
Flowering May–Aug +  and fruiting Jun–Oct. +
Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br />) +
minute +
ovoid +  and ellipsoid cylindric globular oblong conic disciform patelliform or angled +
adnate +  and free +
inserted +  and epipetalous +
climbing +  and scrambling +
sprawling +, creeping +  and prostrate +
horizontal;erect +
Besseya ritteriana +  and Veronica ritteriana +
Synthyris ritteriana +
Synthyris +
species +
compound +  and simple +
gibbous +  and not spurred +