Pedicularis pennellii

Hultén

Fl. Aleut. Isl., 300, plate 14. 1937.

Common names: Pennell’s lousewort
Synonyms: Pedicularis parviflora subsp. pennellii (Hultén) Hultén P. pennellii subsp. insularis Calder & Roy L. Taylor P. pennellii var. insularis (Calder & Roy L. Taylor) B. Boivin
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 529. Mentioned on page 512, 527.

Plants 4–30 cm. Leaves: basal 0–2, blade elliptic, 1–10 x 1–5 mm, 1-pinnatifid, margins of adjacent lobes nonoverlapping or slightly overlapping distally, dentate, surfaces glabrous; cauline 0–5, blade lanceolate or elliptic to deltate, 7–30 x 1–25 mm, 1-pinnatifid or 2-pinnatifid, margins of adjacent lobes nonoverlapping or slightly overlapping distally, serrate, surfaces glabrous. Racemes simple or paniculate, 1–3, exceeding basal leaves, each 8–20-flowered; bracts deltate, 5–20 x 10–15 mm, 1-pinnatifid or 2-pinnatifid nearly to midrib, lobes sometimes laciniate, margins serrate, surfaces glabrous. Pedicels 1–1.5 mm. Flowers: calyx 3.5–8.5 mm, glabrous, lobes 2 (–4), triangular, 2–6 mm, apex dentate to 2-dentate, glabrous; corolla 8–16 mm, tube light pink to purple, 5–9 mm; galea bicolored, yellow with purple spots proximally, purple distally, 3–6.5 mm, beakless, margins 1-toothed medially and distally, apex straight to arching slightly over abaxial lip; abaxial lip yellow to pink with purple spots, 3–8 mm. 2n = 16 (Asia).


Phenology: Flowering Jun–Aug.
Habitat: Moist tundras, stream banks, wet terraces, willow thickets, wet meadows, fens, bogs.
Elevation: 0–500 m.

Discussion

Pedicularis palustris and P. pennellii are extensively branched, with branching in P. pennellii more compact and subequal, making it appear shrubby. The branches of P. palustris, in contrast, become progressively shorter distally on the stem, giving the plant a pyramidal appearance.

Calder and Taylor recognized subsp. insularis by its smaller or sometimes absent apical teeth on the galea margins. Boivin subsequently reduced it to a variety. Given this minor difference, this taxon (found only on Haida Gwaii [the Queen Charlotte Islands] of British Columbia) is not recognized here.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Pedicularis pennellii"
yellow +  and pink +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
beakless +  and beaked +
dentate +  and 2-dentate +
straight +
Bruce W. Robart +
Hultén +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
2-pinnatifid;1-pinnatifid;elliptic;deltate +
not leathery +  and not fleshy +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
2-pinnatifid +, 1-pinnatifid +  and deltate +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
tubular +, campanulate +  and symmetric +
0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br /> (0.85 cm8.5 mm <br />0.0085 m <br />) +
fleshy +  and woody +
whorled +  and alternate +
Pennell’s lousewort +
white +, yellow +, red +, purple +  and pink +
cylindric +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.6 cm16 mm <br />0.016 m <br />) +
B.C. +, Alaska +  and Asia +
0–500 m. +
hairy +  and glabrous +
2 +  and 1 +
indehiscent +, septicidal +, loculicidal +  and dehiscence +
yellow +  and bicolored +
Moist tundras, stream banks, wet terraces, willow thickets, wet meadows, fens, bogs. +
axillary +  and terminal +
spiral +, whorled +, alternate +  and opposite +
deciduous +
basal +  and cauline +
triangular +  and laciniate +
serrate +  and dentate +
overlapping +  and nonoverlapping +
1-toothed +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
campylotropous-like +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
Flowering Jun–Aug. +
Fl. Aleut. Isl., +
8-20-flowered;simple +
tan;brown;tan;brown;dark gray +
5 +  and 100 +
5 +  and 2 +
subequal +
aerial +  and subterranean +
woolly +, villous +, hispid +  and glabrous +
glabrous;glabrous;glabrous +
Pedicularis parviflora subsp. pennellii +, P. pennellii subsp. insularis +  and P. pennellii var. insularis +
Pedicularis pennellii +
Pedicularis +
species +
light pink;purple +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +