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|accepted_name=Castilleja kraliana
|accepted_authority=J. R. Allison
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Castanea
|place=66: 159, fig. 3. 2001
|year=2001
}}
|common_names=Kral’s paintbrush
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orobanchaceae;Castilleja;Castilleja kraliana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orobanchaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Castilleja]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Castilleja kraliana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 569
|treatment_page=page 617
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual or biennial, (1.6–)2–4(–4.9) dm; with fibrous roots. <b>Stems</b> solitary or few, erect, from a basal rosette that usually persists into anthesis, unbranched or few-branched from mid stem, glabrate proximally, hairy distally, hairs moderately dense, spreading, long, soft, mixed with short stipitate-glandular ones. <b>Leaves</b>: basal forming a persistent rosette, often withered at anthesis, usually suffused to varying degrees with red, sometimes green, oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, 2–6 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, flat, 0-lobed, apex obtuse to broadly rounded to sometimes acute or subtruncate; cauline green, sometimes proximal suffused with red or purple, linear to linear-lanceolate or linear-oblanceolate, 1.1–6.5 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, flat, 0–3(–5)-lobed, apex usually acute, rarely obtuse; lobes erect to ascending, narrowly oblong to linear or narrowly lanceolate, to 1.8 cm, apex acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> (2–)4–24(–33) × 2–4 cm; bracts proximally greenish, distally bright yellow, rarely light orange, proximal narrowly lanceolate, leaflike, distal oblong to broadly rounded-oblanceolate, continuing to grow after anthesis and becoming greener and more leaflike, lateral lobes, if present, growing even more than central lobe, 0–5-lobed; lobes erect, triangular or lanceolate, sometimes linear, short or medium length, arising above mid length, proximal bract apex acute, distal rounded, rarely central lobe shallowly toothed. <b>Calyces</b> proximally whitish or pale green, often aging purple, distally yellow, (13–)15–18 mm; abaxial and adaxial clefts 4–7 mm, 40–50% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 0–0.2 mm, ca. 0% of calyx length; lobes curved, oblong, apex rounded to truncate, sometimes emarginate. <b>Corollas</b> straight or slightly curved, (15–)17–23 mm; tube 8–11 mm; abaxial lip rarely exserted, beak exserted; beak adaxially green or yellow-green, 5–7 mm, margins yellow or yellow-green; abaxial lip ascending, deep green, slightly inflated, 2–3 mm, 20–30% as long as beak, apex rounded; teeth ascending, green, whitish, or yellow, 0.5–2 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering (Mar–)Apr–Jun(–Jul).
|habitat=Full sun or partial shade, outcrops and glades, forest edges, river bluffs, Ketona dolomite.
|elevation=90–150 m.
|distribution=Ala.
|discussion=<p><i>Castilleja kraliana</i> is restricted to dolomite glades in Bibb County, which is a local center of endemism near the Cahaba River. <i>Castilleja kraliana</i> has mostly entire, bright yellow bracts and calyces 13–18 mm, and differs from the related <i>C. coccinea</i>, which has deeply lobed and red, rarely yellow, bracts and calyces 17–28 mm.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Castilleja kraliana
|author=
|authority=J. R. Allison
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Orobanchaceae
|phenology=Flowering (Mar–)Apr–Jun(–Jul).
|habitat=Full sun or partial shade, outcrops and glades, forest edges, river bluffs, Ketona dolomite.
|elevation=90–150 m.
|distribution=Ala.
|reference=None
|publication title=Castanea
|publication year=2001
|special status=Endemic;Conservation concern
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|genus=Castilleja
|species=Castilleja kraliana
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