Overview
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Common Names
Common Names in English:
Bearded Owl-Clover, Yellowbeak Owl's-Clover
Description
Genus Triphysaria
Herbs, annual
, hemiparasitic. Leaves alternate. Spikes terminal
; bracts often broader than leaves. Calyx subequally 4-lobed. Corolla elongated, conspicuously 2-lipped; lower lip 3-lobed, base
of lobes
saccate
; upper lip slightly longer
than lower lip, rostrate
, entire
. Stamens 4, didynamous
; anthers
1-loculed. Stigma entire. Capsule compressed
, 2-sulcate, loculicidal. Seeds numerous
.
Six species: W North America, particularly California; one species in China.[1]
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
)
- Plants
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
()
- Flowering Plants
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Dicotyledons
- Order:
Scrophulariales
()
- Family:
Scarabaeoidea
()
- Genus:
Triphysaria
()
- Fischer & C. A. Meyer, Index Sem. Hort. Petrop. 2: 52. 1836.
- Owl's-clover
- Specific epithet:
versicolor
- Fisch. & C.A. Mey.
- Subspecies:
versicolor
- Botanical name: - Triphysaria versicolor versicolor Fisch. & C.A. Mey.
- Subspecies:
versicolor
- Specific epithet:
versicolor
- Fisch. & C.A. Mey.
- Genus:
Triphysaria
(
- Family:
Scarabaeoidea
(
- Order:
Scrophulariales
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Orthocarpus erianthus Benth. var. versicolor (Fisch. & C. A. Mey.) Jeps.
- Orthocarpus Erianthus Versicolor
- Orthocarpus Versicolor
- Orthocarpus versicolor (Fisch. & C. A. Mey.) Greene
Similar Species
Members of the genus Triphysaria
There are approximately 12 species in this genus:
T. chinensis · T. eriantha eriantha (Johnny-Tuck) · T. eriantha rosea (Johnny-Tuck) · T. eriantha subsp. rosea (Johnny-Tuck) · T. floribunda (San Francisco Owl's-Clover) · T. hispida · T. micrantha (Purplebeak Owl's-Clover) · T. pusilla (Dwarf Owl's-Clover) · T. versicolor (Yellowbeak Owl's-Clover) · T. versicolor faucibarbata · T. versicolor subsp. faucibarbata · T. versicolor versicolor (Yellowbeak Owl's-Clover)
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Further Reading
- Tsoong Puchiu & Yang Hanbi, eds. 1979. Scrophulariaceae (1). Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 67(2): 1-431. Tsoong Puchiu, ed. 1963. Scrophulariaceae (2). Fl. Reipulb. Popularis Sin. 68: 1-449.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby FA, Roskov YR, Orrell TM, Nicolson D, Paglinawan LE, Bailly N, Kirk PM, Bourgoin T, van Hertum J, eds (2008). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2008 Annual Checklist Taxonomic Classification. CD-ROM; Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/Taxonomicon/]. Access date: Nov 23, 2005
- Species At Risk Act Public Registry, Government of Canada
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2671119
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-525017
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13901597
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 180075
Footnotes
- "Triphysaria". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 89. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
