Keckiella antirrhinoides

(Bentham e× A. de Candolle) Straw

Brittonia 19: 203. 1967.

Common names: Snapdragon penstemon
Illustrated
Basionym: Penstemon antirrhinoides Bentham e× A. de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle Prodr. 10: 594. 1846
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 77. Mentioned on page 68, 76.

Stems spreading to erect, 6–25 dm, canescent, rarely glabrous when young. Leaves opposite, on short-shoots as axillary clusters on older stems; blade oblanceolate or lanceolate to narrowly obovate or ovate, 5–20 mm, margins entire or 2-toothed, sometimes relatively small. Inflorescences panicles, finely short-hairy and sparsely glandular. Flowers: caly× 3–9 mm, lobes lanceolate to ovate; corolla yellow drying blackish, 15–23 mm, tube plus distinct throat 6–10 mm, shorter than adaxial lip, adaxial lip 8–15 mm; pollen-sacs 1.1–1.8 mm; staminode densely yellow-hairy, exserted.

Distribution

Ariz., Calif., Nev., nw Mexico

Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Calyces 3–6 mm, lobes widely ovate, apices obtuse to acute; plants finely hairy; pollen sacs 1.4–1.8 mm. Keckiella antirrhinoides var. antirrhinoides
1 Calyces 5.5–9 mm, lobes lanceolate, apices acute to acuminate; plants canescent; pollen sacs 1.1–1.5 mm. Keckiella antirrhinoides var. microphylla

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0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
David C. Michener +  and Noel H. Holmgren +
(Bentham e× A. de Candolle) Straw +
alternate +, opposite +, whorled +, helical +  and subopposite +
Penstemon antirrhinoides +
lanceolate;narrowly obovate or ovate +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
not +, leathery +  and fleshy +
whorled +, subopposite +  and opposite +
Snapdragon penstemon +
blackish +  and yellow +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (2.3 cm23 mm <br />0.023 m <br />) +
scale-like +  and not needlelike +
Ariz. +, Calif. +, Nev. +  and nw Mexico +
drupe-like +
curved +  and straight +
eglandular-hairy +
1 +  and 4 +
loculicidal +  and septicidal +
white-membranous +
terminal +  and axillary +
drought-deciduous +
lanceolate;ovate +
2-toothed +  and entire +
axile +  and parietal +
basal +, apical +  and superior +
tenuinucellate +, unitegmic +  and hemitropous +
campylotropous +, hemianatropous +  and anatropous +
5 +  and 4 +
0.11 cm1.1 mm <br />0.0011 m <br /> (0.18 cm1.8 mm <br />0.0018 m <br />) +
spikelike +
minute +
short-tubular +
Illustrated +
filamentous +
sprawling +, creeping +  and prostrate +
spreading;erect +
glabrous +  and canescent +
Keckiella antirrhinoides +
Keckiella +
species +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
gibbous +  and not spurred +
biennial +, perennial +  and annual +
shrub +  and subshrub +