Agalinis calycina

Pennell

Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 81: 141. 1929.

Common names: Leoncita false foxglove
Conservation concern
Synonyms: Gerardia calycina (Pennell) Pennell
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 540. Mentioned on page 536, 545.

Stems branched, 40–62 cm; branches ascending, terete to moreorless quadrangular, glabrous or sparsely scabridulous. Leaves spreading; blade narrowly linear, 12–28 (–35) x 0.8–1.5 mm, fleshy, margins entire, often siliceous, adaxial surface with siliceous, sessile, dome-shaped hairs; axillary fascicles shorter than subtending leaves. Inflorescences racemes or panicles, flowers 1 or 2 per node; bracts longer than pedicels. Pedicels ascending, 5–9 mm, glabrous. Flowers: calyx elongate-campanulate, tube 4.5–6 mm, glabrous, lobes narrowly lanceolate, 2.7–7 mm; corolla pink, with 2 yellow lines and dark red spots in abaxial throat, 17–23 mm, throat pilose externally and glabrous within across bases and sinus of adaxial lobes, lobes spreading, 4–6 mm, glabrous externally; proximal anthers parallel to filaments, distal parallel or oblique to filaments, pollen-sacs 3–3.2 mm; style included or exserted, 13–15 mm. Capsules obovoid to oblong, 10–12 mm. Seeds brown, 1–2 mm.


Phenology: Flowering Aug–Sep.
Habitat: Wet alkaline, saline meadows and marshes associated with springs and seeps.
Elevation: 800–1100 m.

Distribution

N.Mex., Tex., Mexico (Coahuila)

Discussion

Within the flora area, Agalinis calycina is known only from desert, alkaline-saline, wet meadows and marshes. It is most closely related to A. heterophylla, from which it differs by its narrowly linear leaves, longer pedicels, shorter corolla lobes, included to slightly exserted style, and larger seeds and capsules. In Texas, A. calycina is known only from Pecos County in the trans-Pecos region.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

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rounded +  and gibbous +
Judith M. Canne-Hilliker† +  and John F. Hays +
Pennell +
2.8 cm28 mm <br />0.028 m <br /> (3.5 cm35 mm <br />0.035 m <br />) +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (2.8 cm28 mm <br />0.028 m <br />) +
0.08 cm0.8 mm <br />8.0e-4 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
scabridulous +
terete +  and more or less quadrangular +
elongate-campanulate +
obovoid;oblong +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
Leoncita false foxglove +
bilabiate +  and symmetric +
subrotate +, cylindric +, club--shaped +, salverform +, campanulate +  and tubular +
N.Mex. +, Tex. +  and Mexico (Coahuila) +
800–1100 m. +
glabrate +  and lanate +
2 +  and 1 +
indehiscent +, septicidal +, loculicidal +  and dehiscence +
Wet alkaline, saline meadows and marshes associated with springs and seeps. +
dome--shaped +
axillary +  and terminal +
alternate +, subopposite +  and opposite +
deciduous +
lanceolate +
2-pinnatifid +, pinnatifid +  and cleft +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
campylotropous-like +
spikelike +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
Flowering Aug–Sep. +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.32 cm3.2 mm <br />0.0032 m <br />) +
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia +
spikelike +
60 +  and 600 +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
Conservation concern +
1.7 cm17 mm <br />0.017 m <br /> (2.3 cm23 mm <br />0.023 m <br />) +
subequal +
aerial +  and subterranean +
leaning +  and erect +
sericeous +, glabrate +, hispid +  and glabrous +
papillate +  and scabridulous +
40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br /> (62 cm620 mm <br />0.62 m <br />) +
exserted +  and included +
1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
Gerardia calycina +
Agalinis calycina +
Agalinis +
species +
glabrous +  and pilose +
campanulate +
0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
perennial +  and annual +