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|accepted_name=Macranthera flammea
|accepted_authority=(W. Bartram) Pennell
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=40: 124. 1913
|year=1913
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Gerardia flammea
|authority=W. Bartram
|publication_title=Travels Carolina,
|publication_place=412. 1791
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orobanchaceae;Macranthera;Macranthera flammea
|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 class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Macranthera flammea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 561
|treatment_page=page 562
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials </b>or biennials monocarpic, blackening upon drying. <b>Stems</b> virgately branched distally, 4-angled, 8–35 dm. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole winged, to 2 cm; blade lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 8–15 x 2–6 cm, smaller distally, surfaces glabrate. <b>Racemes</b> 8–36 cm. <b>Pedicels</b> deflexed-spreading proximally, strongly upcurved distally. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx tube 2–4 mm, retrorsely puberulent, lobes 7.5–15 mm, longer than tube; corolla 20–25 mm, exterior densely glandular-mealy, lobes 3–4.5 mm, shorter than tube, abaxial lobes reflexed-spreading, adaxial erect; stamens long-exserted, filaments orange, 15–46 mm; style long-exserted, 28–36 mm, glabrous. <b>Capsules</b> brown, ovoid, 9.5–13 mm, densely puberulent. <b>Seeds</b> 2.5–3 mm, wings 2–5. <b>2n</b> = 26.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Periodically burned streamheads and ecotones, baygall ecotones, seepage slopes, margins of shrub-tree bogs, cypress-gum depressions.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.
|discussion=<p><i>Macranthera flammea</i> is one of the more striking plants in the flora area due to its remarkable height (for an herb) and numerous, brilliant orange flowers; it is best able to compete with associated shrubs and trees by flowering prolifically following fire and attracting hummingbirds. There is precise coincidence in the flowering of this species and the arrival of ruby-throated hummingbirds (Archilochus colubris) prior to their trans-Gulf migration to Central America (A. L. Pickens 1927).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Macranthera flammea
|author=
|authority=(W. Bartram) Pennell
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Gerardia flammea
|family=Orobanchaceae
|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Periodically burned streamheads and ecotones, baygall ecotones, seepage slopes, margins of shrub-tree bogs, cypress-gum depressions.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1913
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V17/V17_1002.xml
|genus=Macranthera
|species=Macranthera flammea
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