Triphysaria eriantha

(Bentham) T. I. Chuang & Heckard

Syst. Bot. 16: 660. 1991.

Common names: Johnny-tuck
IllustratedEndemic
Basionym: Orthocarpus erianthus Bentham Scroph. Ind., 12. 1835
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 685. Mentioned on page 592, 680.

Stems simple or with 1–10 ascending branches proximally, 2–37 cm, glabrous proximally, puberulent to glandular-puberulent distally. Leaves puberulent to glandular-puberulent; proximal cauline: blade linear, 5–25 mm; cauline: blade ± ovate or obovate, 8–50 mm, base sessile, margins pinnatifid, rarely bipinnatifid, lateral lobes 2–11. Spikelike racemes interrupted, dense distally, 1–24 cm; peduncle absent; bracts pinnatifid, rarely bipinnatifid, ± ovate, 2–30 mm, lateral lobes 2–8. Pedicels 0.3–0.5 mm, glabrous. Flowers: calyx 6–13 mm, puberulent to glandular-puberulent, tube 4–7 mm, lobes triangular to narrowly lanceolate, 1–4 × 1–1.5 mm; corolla yellow, rarely yellow-and-white, or white, fading to rose-pink, 10–25 mm, densely hairy, beak dark purple, not hooked, abaxial lobes spreading, 2–5 mm, throat abruptly indented, forming a fold under abaxial corolla lip, adaxial lobes projecting; stamens included, pollen-sac yellow, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous, dehiscing longitudinally; style 12–22 mm, glabrous; stigma capitate. Capsules 4–8 × 2.5–4.5 mm, glabrous. Seeds 30–100, ovoid, 0.5–1 mm.

Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Corollas yellow, rarely yellow and white. Triphysaria eriantha subsp. eriantha
1 Corollas white, fading to rose pink. Triphysaria eriantha subsp. rosea
... more about "Triphysaria eriantha"
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
Elizabeth H. Zacharias +
(Bentham) T. I. Chuang & Heckard +
Orthocarpus erianthus +
not hooked +
obovate;ovate +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
not leathery +  and not fleshy +
ovate +  and pinnatifid +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
1 +  and 10 +
puberulent;glandular-puberulent +
campanulate +, tubular +  and symmetric +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br />) +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br />) +
Johnny-tuck +
white fading +  and rose-pink +
club--shaped +  and tubular +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
Calif. +  and Oreg. +
2 +  and 1 +
indehiscent +, septicidal +, loculicidal +  and dehiscence +
axillary +  and terminal +
alternate +, usually subopposite +  and opposite proximally +
deciduous +
puberulent +  and glandular-puberulent +
triangular +  and narrowly lanceolate +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
pinnatifid +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
campylotropous-like +
0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br /> (0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br />) +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
spikelike +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (24 cm240 mm <br />0.24 m <br />) +
dark-brown +
30 +  and 100 +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
subequal +
with 1-10 ascending branches +  and simple +
aerial +  and subterranean +
puberulent +  and glandular-puberulent +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (37 cm370 mm <br />0.37 m <br />) +
not fleshy +
filiform +  and subcapitate +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (2.2 cm22 mm <br />0.022 m <br />) +
Orthocarpus subg. Triphysaria +
Triphysaria eriantha +
Triphysaria +
species +
indented +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +