Macranthera

Nuttall ex Bentham

Edwards's Bot. Reg. 21: sub plate 1770, [6]. 1835.

Common names: Flame or hummingbird flower
Endemic
Etymology: Greek macros, long, and antheros, anther, alluding to long-exserted stamens
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 561. Mentioned on page 458, 562.
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FNA17 P62 Dasistoma macrophyllum.jpegDasistoma macrophyllum
Macranthera flammea
Seymeria pectinata subsp. pectinata
Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey

Herbs, perennial or biennial; hemiparasitic. Stems erect, not fleshy, retrorsely puberulent. Leaves basal and cauline, opposite; petiole present; blade not fleshy, not leathery, margins pinnatifid on proximal leaves, toothed on distal leaves. Inflorescences terminal, racemes; bracts present. Pedicels present; bracteoles absent. Flowers: sepals 5, calyx radially symmetric, campanulate to short-tubular, lobes linear; petals 5, corolla bright orange, bilabiate, tubular, abaxial lobes 3, adaxial 2; stamens 4, equal, filaments pilosulous; staminode 0; ovary 2-locular, placentation axile; stigma linear-clavate. Capsules: dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds ca. 110, brown to blackish, irregularly triangular, wings present (with tuberculate crest). x = 13.

Distribution

se United States

Discussion

Species 1.

... more about "Macranthera"
Bruce A. Sorrie +
Nuttall ex Bentham +
not leathery +  and not fleshy +
campanulate +  and short-tubular +
Flame or hummingbird flower +
bright orange +
se United States +
Greek macros, long, and antheros, anther, alluding to long-exserted stamens +
2 +  and 1 +
indehiscent +, septicidal +, loculicidal +  and dehiscence +
axillary +  and terminal +
deciduous +
cauline +  and basal +
toothed +  and pinnatifid +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
campylotropous-like +
Edwards's Bot. Reg. +
alford2002a +  and musselman1972a +
brown;blackish +
triangular +
subequal +
aerial +  and subterranean +
puberulent +
not fleshy +
linear-clavate +
Macranthera +
Orobanchaceae +
biennial +  and perennial +