Rhynchocorys elephas
Rhynchocorys elephas
Filburnu
Perennial, villous with eglandular and glandular hairs or pubescent. Stems erect or ascending, simple or branched, 20-40 cm. Leaves ovate to oblongelliptic, to 5 x 2,8 cm, sessile or shortly petiolate , crenate-serrate, acute or obtuse at apex. Inflorescence wide-paniculate, loose, few to many-flowered; flowers solitary in leafaxils. Pedicels erect-spreading, 4-10 mm. Calyx ovatecampanulate, 5-8 mm, expanding in fruit to c. 15 mm; tube c. 4 mm. Corolla yellow to golden yellow, to 18 mm; tube c. 1/2 length of corolla; upper lip, including a c. 6-10 mm straight beak, c. 12 mm. Capsule suborbicular, c. 4 x 3,5 mm, pubescent or glabrous; seeds 20-30, c. 1 mm, linear-striate. Variable in habit, leaf-shape and size, indumentum and corolla size. Most of this variation appears to be at the local population level but two subspecies are recognized.
1. Ovary and capsule pubescent subsp. elephas
1. Ovary and capsule glabrous subsp. boissieri
