Synthyris rubra

(Douglas ex Hooker) Bentham in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle

Prodr. 10: 455. 1846.

Common names: Red kittentail or coraldrops
Endemic
Basionym: Gymnandra rubra Douglas ex Hooker Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 103, plate 172. 1838
Synonyms: Besseya rubra (Douglas ex Hooker) Rydberg Veronica rubra (Douglas ex Hooker) M. M. Martínez Ort. & Albach
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 304. Mentioned on page 296, 297.

Leaves strictly annual, disintegrating in 1st year; blade oblong-ovate to ovate, 25+ mm wide, leathery, base cuneate, truncate, or rounded to lobate, sometimes cordate, margins crenate, teeth apices acute to rounded, surfaces sparsely hairy; basal veins extending into distal 1/2 of blade, lateral-veins 3–6 on each side of midvein. Racemes erect, to 45 cm in fruit; sterile bracts 10–30, ovate-spatulate, largest 1+ cm; flowers 100+, densely aggregated (separating in fruit). Sepals 4, basal connation between abaxial and adaxial lobes on each side of flower. Petals 1–4, apex entire or erose; corolla reddish, bluish purple, green, or white, bilabiate or unilabiate, rudimentary, much shorter than calyx, glabrous, 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. Ovaries: ovules 17–40. Capsules densely hairy.


Phenology: Flowering Mar–Jun; fruiting Apr–Jul.
Habitat: Grasslands, open coniferous forests.
Elevation: 200–1700 m.

Distribution

Idaho, Mont., Oreg., Wash.

Discussion

Natural hybrids of Synthyris missurica and S. rubra occur near Kamiah, Idaho (A. R. Kruckeberg and F. L. Hedglin 1963).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
... more about "Synthyris rubra"
erose +  and entire +
Larry D. Hufford +
(Douglas ex Hooker) Bentham in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle +
alternate +, opposite +, whorled +, helical +  and subopposite +
cordate;rounded;lobate +
Gymnandra rubra +
oblong-ovate;ovate +
ovate-spatulate +
largest +
campanulate +
Red kittentail or coraldrops +
unilabiate +  and bilabiate +
white +, green +, bluish purple +  and reddish +
ellipsoid +, tubular +  and campanulate +
boat-shaped +
Idaho +, Mont. +, Oreg. +  and Wash. +
drupe-like +
200–1700 m. +
curved +  and straight +
1 +  and 4 +
Grasslands, open coniferous forests. +
disintegrating +
4 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
ovate;lanceolate +
basal +, apical +  and superior +
tenuinucellate +, unitegmic +  and hemitropous +
campylotropous +, hemianatropous +  and anatropous +
1 +  and 4 +
Flowering Mar–Jun +  and fruiting Apr–Jul. +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (45 cm450 mm <br />0.45 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 rubra +  and Veronica rubra +
Synthyris rubra +
Synthyris +
species +
compound +  and simple +
gibbous +  and not spurred +