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|accepted_name=Macranthera
|accepted_authority=Nuttall ex Bentham
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Edwards's Bot. Reg.
|place=21: sub plate 1770, [6]. 1835
|year=1835
}}
|common_names=Flame or hummingbird flower
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orobanchaceae;Macranthera
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orobanchaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Macranthera]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek macros, long, and antheros, anther, alluding to long-exserted stamens
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 458, 562
|treatment_page=page 561
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial or biennial; hemiparasitic. <b>Stems</b> erect, not fleshy, retrorsely puberulent. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline, opposite; petiole present; blade not fleshy, not leathery, margins pinnatifid on proximal leaves, toothed on distal leaves. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, racemes; bracts present. <b>Pedicels</b> present; bracteoles absent. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 5, calyx radially symmetric, campanulate to short-tubular, lobes linear; petals 5, corolla bright orange, bilabiate, tubular, abaxial lobes 3, adaxial 2; stamens 4, equal, filaments pilosulous; staminode 0; ovary 2-locular, placentation axile; stigma linear-clavate. <b>Capsules</b>: dehiscence loculicidal. <b>Seeds</b> ca. 110, brown to blackish, irregularly triangular, wings present (with tuberculate crest). <b>x</b> = 13.</span><!--

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|distribution=se United States.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=alford2002a
|text=Alford, J. D. and L. C. Anderson. 2002. Taxonomy and morphology of Macranthera flammea (Orobanchaceae). Sida 20: 189–204.
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|id=musselman1972a
|text=Musselman, L. J. 1972. Root parasitism of Macranthera flammea and Tomanthera auriculata. J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 88: 58–60.
}}
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name=Macranthera
|author=Bruce A. Sorrie
|authority=Nuttall ex Bentham
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Orobanchaceae
|distribution=se United States.
|reference=alford2002a;musselman1972a
|publication title=Edwards's Bot. Reg.
|publication year=1835
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Macranthera
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