Camissoniopsis cheiranthifolia |
Camissoniopsis robusta |
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beach evening-primrose, beach suncup |
robust subcup, robust suncup |
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Habit | Herbs short-lived perennial, sometimes woody at base, usually densely strigillose throughout, rarely glabrous, also villous distally. | Herbs annual, villous, usually also glandular puberulent distally. | ||||
Stems | prostrate, decumbent, or ascending from base, to 60(–130) cm. |
erect, with 1 or more ascending branches from base, to 60 cm. |
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Leaves | 0.5–5 × 0.3–2.2 cm; petiole 0–1.5(–2.5) cm, distal ones to 1 cm; blade narrowly ovate, base attenuate, cuneate, or cordate, margins sparsely serrulate, apex acute. |
1–8 × 1.5–2 cm; subsessile; blade narrowly lanceolate-elliptic, base cuneate to truncate, basal often attenuate, margins denticulate, apex acute. |
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Flowers | opening near sunrise; floral tube 2.1–8.5 mm; sepals 4–11.5 mm; petals yellow, often red-dotted near base, 6–20 mm; episepalous filaments 2.8–8 mm, epipetalous filaments 1.5–6 mm, anthers 1–3 mm, less than 5% of pollen grains 4- or 5-pored; style 6–23 mm, stigma surrounded by or exserted beyond anthers at anthesis. |
opening near sunrise; floral tube 1.8–3.7 mm; sepals 2.6–4.2 mm; petals yellow, usually with 1 or 2 red dots basally, 3.2–7 mm; episepalous filaments 1.8–3 mm, epipetalous filaments 1–1.5 mm, anthers 0.8–3 mm, 70–100% of pollen grains 4-pored; style 3–6.2 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis. |
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Capsules | often coiled in 1–2 spirals, 4-angled, 10–25 × 2–2.5 mm. |
usually 1-coiled spiral, 4-angled, 14–25 × 1.5–2 mm. |
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Seeds | 1.2–1.3 mm. |
0.9–1.2 mm. |
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2n | = 42. |
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Camissoniopsis cheiranthifolia |
Camissoniopsis robusta |
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Phenology | Flowering (Jan–)Mar–Jun(–Sep). | |||||
Habitat | Coastal sage, chaparral, disturbed or open places. | |||||
Elevation | 0–600(–800) m. (0–2000(–2600) ft.) | |||||
Distribution | w United States; nw Mexico
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CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). Camissoniopsis cheiranthifolia occurs on slopes and dunes along the immediate coast and on islands from Coos Bay, Curry County, Oregon, to the vicinity of San Quintín, Baja California; it is also known from the east shore of San Francisco Bay and locally on sand dunes along the lower Sacramento River, California, 0–100 m. P. H. Raven (1969) determined C. cheiranthifolia to be self-incompatible (some populations in subsp. suffruticosa) or self-compatible (both subspecies) and apparently pollinated by oligolectic bees of Andrena subg. Onagrandrena (Raven); Raven subdivided the species into two intergrading subspecies. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Camissoniopsis robusta occurs in coastal San Diego County, California, and coastal northwestern Baja California, south to the vicinity of El Rosario; also on Guadalupe, San Clemente, Santa Catalina, and Santa Cruz (rare) islands. P. H. Raven (1969) determined C. robusta to be self-compatible and primarily autogamous. Based on the intermediate morphology of this hexaploid, Raven suggested that it was derived from two species with which it occurs nearly throughout its rather limited range, the tetraploid C. intermedia (2n = 28) and the diploid C. lewisii (2n = 14). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. | ||||
Parent taxa | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Camissoniopsis | Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Camissoniopsis | ||||
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Synonyms | Oenothera cheiranthifolia, Agassizia cheiranthifolia, Camissonia cheiranthifolia, Holostigma cheiranthifolium, Sphaerostigma cheiranthifolium | Camissonia robusta | ||||
Name authority | (Hornemann ex Sprengel) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 204. (2007) | (P. H. Raven) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 205. (2007) | ||||
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