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|accepted_name=Synthyris ritteriana
|accepted_authority=Eastwood
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser.
|place=3, 1: 123, plate 9, fig. 2. 1898
|year=1898
}}
|common_names=Ritters’ kittentail
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Besseya ritteriana
|authority=(Eastwood) Rydberg
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Veronica ritteriana
|authority=(Eastwood) M. M. Martínez Ort. & Albach
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Plantaginaceae;Synthyris;Synthyris ritteriana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Plantaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Synthyris]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Synthyris ritteriana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 297, 304
|treatment_page=page 303
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="leaf duration;leaf dehiscence"><b>Leaves </b>strictly annual, disintegrating in 1st year;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="blade shape;blade width;blade texture;base shape;margin shape;teeth apex shape;surface pubescence">blade broadly elliptic to lanceolate, 25+ mm wide, leathery, base truncate to tapered, margins crenate, teeth apices acute to rounded, surfaces hairy;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="lateral-vein quantity">basal veins extending through proximal 1/2 of blade, lateral-veins 5–12 on each side of midvein.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="raceme orientation;raceme some measurement"><b>Racemes </b>erect, to 40 cm in fruit;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="bract reproduction;bract quantity;bract shape;bract size;bract some measurement">sterile bracts 10–40, ovate-spatulate, largest 1+ cm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="flower quantity;flower arrangement">flowers 100+, densely aggregated (separating in fruit).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="sepal quantity"><b>Sepals </b>4.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="petal quantity;apex architecture;apex architecture"><b>Petals </b>3 (or 4), apex entire or erose;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="corolla coloration;corolla architecture;corolla shape;corolla length or size;corolla pubescence;lateral and abaxial petal fusion;lateral and abaxial petal lengths;petal lip fusion;tube presence">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.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="petal lip fusion"><b>Stamens </b>inserted on receptacle, but abaxial and adaxial petal lips basally adnate to stamens.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="ovary pubescence;ovary pubescence"><b>Ovaries </b>glabrous or sparsely hairy at apex;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="ovule quantity">ovules 17–40.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="capsule pubescence"><b>Capsules </b>glabrous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Aug; fruiting Jun–Oct.
|habitat=Moist subalpine or alpine meadows.
|elevation=2100–3800 m.
|distribution=Colo.
|discussion=<p>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.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Synthyris ritteriana
|authority=Eastwood
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Besseya ritteriana;Veronica ritteriana
|basionyms=
|family=Plantaginaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Aug; fruiting Jun–Oct.
|habitat=Moist subalpine or alpine meadows.
|elevation=2100–3800 m.
|distribution=Colo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser.
|publication year=1898
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V17/V17_736.xml
|genus=Synthyris
|species=Synthyris ritteriana
|apex architecture=erose;entire
|base shape=truncate;tapered
|blade shape=broadly elliptic;lanceolate
|blade texture=leathery
|bract quantity=10;40
|bract reproduction=sterile
|bract shape=ovate-spatulate
|bract size=largest
|capsule pubescence=glabrous
|corolla architecture=bilabiate
|corolla coloration=yellow
|corolla length or size=longer
|corolla pubescence=puberulent
|corolla shape=ellipsoid
|flower arrangement=aggregated
|lateral and abaxial petal fusion=connate
|lateral-vein quantity=5;12
|leaf dehiscence=disintegrating
|leaf duration=annual
|margin shape=crenate
|ovary pubescence=hairy;glabrous
|ovule quantity=17;40
|petal lip fusion=adnate;adnate
|petal quantity=3
|raceme orientation=erect
|raceme some measurement=0cm;40cm
|sepal quantity=4
|surface pubescence=hairy
|teeth apex shape=acute;rounded
|tube presence=absent
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