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Kopsiopsis hookeri
SMALL GROUND-CONE


Higher Taxonomy
Family: OrobanchaceaeView DescriptionDichotomous Key
Common Name: BROOMRAPE FAMILY
Habit: Annual, perennial herb, shrub; often glandular; root-parasites, roots modified into absorptive structures. Stem: generally round in ×-section. Leaf: generally simple, generally alternate, reduced to +- fleshy scales in non-green plants lacking chlorophyll; stipules generally 0. Inflorescence: spike to panicle, generally bracted, or flowers 1--2 in axils. Flower: bisexual; calyx lobes 0--5; corolla generally strongly bilateral, generally 2-lipped (upper lip generally 2-lobed, lower lip generally 3-lobed), abaxial lobes outside other lobes in bud; stamens epipetalous, 4 in 2 pairs (sometimes 1 pair sterile), additional staminode 0(1), anther sacs unequal; ovary superior, chambers 1--2, placentas 2--4, parietal, style 1, stigma lobes 0 or 2. Fruit: capsule, generally +- ovoid, loculicidal, valves 2--4. Seed: many, small, angled; surface smooth or netted.
Genera In Family: +- 100 genera, 2060 species: worldwide, especially northern temperate and Africa. Note: High yield losses in many crops caused by Orobanche and Phelipanche species in Africa, Mediterranean, Middle East, and eastern Europe. Taxa of Orobanche in TJM2 treated here in Aphyllon and Phelipanche.
eFlora Treatment Author: Margriet Wetherwax, except as noted
Scientific Editor: Robert W. Patterson, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Genus: KopsiopsisView DescriptionDichotomous Key


Common Name: GROUND-CONE
Habit: Perennial herb 7--30 cm, not green (holoparasite); roots 0. Stem: erect, simple, 1--many from spheric, tuber-like base attached to host root; tuber surface covered with polygonal plates 2--3 mm diam. Leaf: true leaves 0. Inflorescence: spike-like; bracts densely overlapping; pedicels generally < 2 mm; bractlets on pedicel 0--2, linear. Flower: calyx cup-shaped, lobes tapered; corolla with ring of hairs in distal tube at base of stamens, upper lip entire or indented, margin incurved, lower lip 3-lobed; distal end of filament and anther hairy. Fruit: placenta 1 per valve.
Etymology: (Jan Kops, Dutch botanist, 1765--1849)
eFlora Treatment Author: Alison E.L. Colwell
Reference: Gilkey 1945 Oregon State Monogr Stud Bot 9
Kopsiopsis hookeri (Walp.) Govaerts
NATIVE
Habit: Plant 7--16(20) cm. Inflorescence: 3--7 cm, pale yellow to +- purple throughout; largest bracts 7--11(14) mm. Flower: calyx lobes 2--4, 2--4 mm, tapered; corolla pale, lips 3--4 mm, erect, upper > lower, margins sparsely ciliate. Seed: +- 1.5 mm. Chromosomes: 2n=82.
Ecology: Open woodland, mixed conifer forest, generally on Gaultheria shallon, occasionally on Arbutus menziesii, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi; Elevation: < 700 m. Bioregional Distribution: NCoR, SnFrB (Marin Co.); Distribution Outside California: to British Columbia. Flowering Time: Apr
Synonyms: Boschniakia hookeri Walp.
Jepson eFlora Author: Alison E.L. Colwell
Reference: Gilkey 1945 Oregon State Monogr Stud Bot 9
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Citation for this treatment: Alison E.L. Colwell 2012, Kopsiopsis hookeri, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=93803, accessed on April 18, 2024.

Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 18, 2024.

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NCoR, SnFrB (Marin Co.)
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