Cordylanthus wrightii, or Wright's birdbeak, is an annual plant in the family Orobanchaceae found in the Colorado Plateau and Canyonlands region of the southwestern United States.Canyon Country Wildflowers, Damian Fagan, 2nd ed., 2012, Morris Bush Publishing, LLC. in cooperation with Canyonlands Natural History Association,
Taxonomy Cordylanthus wrightii was scientifically described and named by Asa Gray in 1859. It is classified in the genus Cordylanthus as part of the family Orobanchaceae.
According to Plants of the World Online it has three subspecies:
Cordylanthus wrightii subsp. kaibabensis – Native to northern Arizona Cordylanthus wrightii subsp. tenuifolius – Southeast Arizona and southwest New Mexico Cordylanthus wrightii subsp. wrightii – Widespread, southwest US and northern Mexico
Cordylanthus wrightii has three synonyms of the species or of two of its three subspeices.
Table of Synonyms Name Year Rank Synonym of: Notes Adenostegia wrightii 1891 species C. wrightii ≡ hom. Cordylanthus tenuifolius 1940 species subsp. tenuifolius ≡ hom. Cordylanthus wrightii var. pauciflorus 1939 variety subsp. wrightii = het. Notes: ≡ homotypic synonym ; = heterotypic synonym
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