Orthocarpus pachystachyus

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Overview

Critically Endangered

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Orobanchaceae

Herbs annual , biennial, or perennial parasites, without chlorophyll. Stems unbranched or sometimes branched. Leaves scalelike, spirally or subimbricately arranged. Inflorescences racemose, spicate , or subcapitate , rarely 1-flowered; bract 1, usually similar to leaves; bractlets 2, adnate to base of calyx or pedicel. Flowers bisexual , subsessile or pedicelled. Calyx tubular, cupular, or campanulate , (3 or) 4-6-lobed, 2-6-parted, 6-toothed, or spathelike, sometimes absent or of 3 free sepals. Corolla bilabiate, usually curved , sometimes tubular-campanulate or funnelform with 5 subequal lobes ; upper lip entire, emarginate , or 2-lobed; lower lip 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous , inserted at base of corolla tube ; filaments slender; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally, sometimes 1 cell fertile and another sterile or reduced to spur. Pistil 2- or 3-carpellate; ovary superior; placentas 2-4 or 6(-10), parietal or sometimes axile at ovary base; ovules 2-4 or numerous , anatropous . Style long; stigma inflated , discoid , peltate, or 2-4-lobed. Capsule usually dehiscing loculicidally by 2 or 3(or 4) valves . Seeds minute, testa pitted or reticulate .

About 15 genera and 150 species: North Temperate regions , less represented in Africa, America, Asia, and Australia; nine genera and 42 species (nine endemic) in China.[1]

Physical Description

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Annual

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

Members of the genus Orthocarpus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 24 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

O. attenuatis (Owls Clover) · O. barbatus (Grand Coulee Owl's-Clover) · O. bracteosus (Rosy Owl's-Clover) · O. castillejoides var. castillejoides (Johnnynip) · O. cuspidatus (Siskiyou Mountain Owlclover) · O. cuspidatus copelandii (Copeland's Owl's-Clover) · O. cuspidatus cryptanthus (Cryptantha Owlclover) · O. cuspidatus cuspidatus (Siskiyou Mountain Owlclover) · O. cuspidatus subsp. copelandii (Copeland's Owl's-Clover) · O. cuspidatus subsp. cryptanthus (Cryptantha Owl's-Clover) · O. densiflorus var. densiflorus (Sierran Foothill Owlclover) · O. erianthus var. erianthus (Johnnytuck) · O. faucibarbatus var. faucibarbatus (Bearded Owlclover) · O. imbricatus (Mountain Owl's-Clover) · O. lithospermoides var. lithospermoides (Creamsacs) · O. luteus (Golden-Tongue Owl-Clover) · O. pachystachyus (Shasta Owl's-Clover) · O. purpurascens var. purpurascens (Red Owlclover) · O. purpureoalbus (Purple Owlclover) · O. tenuifolius (Goldtongue) · O. tolmiei (Tolmie Owlclover) · O. tolmiei holmgreniorum (Tolmie's Owl's-Clover) · O. tolmiei subsp. holmgreniorum (Noel's Owl's-Clover) · O. versicolor (Yellowbeak Owl's-Clover)

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Further Reading

• 1997 IUCN red list of threatened plants Cambridge: IUCN, World Conservation Union, 1998 url p. 560.
• An illustrated flora of the Pacific States: Washington, Oregon, and California. Stanford University, Stanford University Press, 1923-[60] url p. 817, p. 818.
• Botany Cambridge, Mass., John Wilson and Son, 1880 url p. 475.
• Botany. By W. H. Brewer, Sereno Watson, and Asa Gray. Boston, Little, Brown, 1880. url p. 475.
• Botany. Cambridge, Mass.Welch, Bigelow, University Press, 1876-80. url p. 475.
• Global Biodiversity: status of the Earth's living resources WCMC url p. 222.
• Pittonia: a series of papers relating to botany and botanists /by Edward L. Greene. 4 1899-1901 Berkeley, Calif. [etc.]: Doxey & Co. [etc.], 1887-1905. url p. 101.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 525, p. 558, p. 560.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 50 1908 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 197, p. 198, p. 452.
• Synoptical flora of North America: the Gamopetalae, a second edition of vol. I, pt. II, and vol. II, pt. I / collected by Asa Gray. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1888. url p. 452.
• Zhang Zhiyun. 1990. Orobanchaceae. In: Wang Wentsai, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 69: 69-124.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 13, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• USDA, NRCS. 2005. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:

• Berkeley Natural History Museums: University and Jepson Herbaria DiGIR provider
• USDA PLANTS: USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2668369
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-504067
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:806539-1
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 504067
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDSCR1H0L0
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: ORPA
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 52817

Footnotes

1. Zhi-Yun Zhang & Nikolai N. Tzvelev "Orobanchaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 229. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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