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|accepted_name=Dicranostegia
|accepted_authority=(A. Gray) Pennell
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia
|place=99: 189. 1947
|year=1947
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Cordylanthus
|authority=Nuttall ex Bentham [unranked] Dicranostegia A. Gray
|publication_title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication_place=19: 95. 1883
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orobanchaceae;Dicranostegia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orobanchaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Dicranostegia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek dicranos, two-headed, and stegos, sheath or cover, alluding to two-lobed calyx
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 458, 666, 670
|treatment_page=page 679
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual; hemiparasitic. <b>Stems</b> erect or ascending, rarely prostrate, not fleshy, pubescent, hirsute, or glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, alternate; petiole absent; blade not fleshy, not leathery, margins pinnately 8–11-lobed. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, spikes; bracts present. <b>Pedicels</b> absent; bracteoles absent. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 2, calyx bilaterally symmetric, spathelike, lobes triangular; petals 5, corolla white to yellow, marked with purple, strongly bilabiate, club-shaped, often gibbous at base of lobes, abaxial lobes 3, adaxial lobes 2, adaxial lip galeate; stamens 2, filaments glabrous or proximally pubescent, pollen sacs separate, connective elongate; staminodes 2, filiform; ovary 2-locular, placentation axile; stigma not expanded. <b>Capsules</b>: dehiscence loculicidal. <b>Seeds</b> 5–20, brown, ovoid, wings absent. <b>x</b> = 8.</span><!--

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|distribution=Calif.;nw Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p><!--
--><p><i>Dicranostegia</i> is sometimes classified as <i>Cordylanthus</i> subg. <i>Dicranostegia</i> (A. Gray) T. I. Chuang & Heckard. D. C. Tank et al. (2009) have shown that <i>Dicranostegia</i> is closely related to <i>Chloropyron</i> and that both genera form a clade that is sister to <i>Castilleja</i> and <i>Triphysaria</i>.</p><!--
--><p>Like <i>Chloropyron</i> and <i>Cordylanthus</i>, <i>Dicranostegia</i> has closed, club-shaped flowers with a spathelike calyx. Flowers are subtended by a single, elongate bracteole and pinnate bracts. <i>Dicranostegia</i> differs in having pinnately lobed leaves, deeply two-parted calyces that are about half as long as the corollas, and stamens with pollen sacs held apart on relatively short connectives.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=chuang1975a
|text=Chuang, T. I. and L. R. Heckard. 1975. Taxonomic status of Cordylanthus (subg. Dicranostegia) orcuttianus (Scrophulariaceae). Madroño 23: 88–95.
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name=Dicranostegia
|author=Kerry A. Barringer
|authority=(A. Gray) Pennell
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Cordylanthus
|family=Orobanchaceae
|distribution=Calif.;nw Mexico.
|reference=chuang1975a
|publication title=Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia
|publication year=1947
|special status=
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|genus=Dicranostegia
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