Camissoniopsis confusa |
Camissoniopsis lewisii |
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San Bernardino sun cup |
Lewis' evening-primrose |
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Habit | Herbs annual, densely villous, often also strigillose, at least sparsely villous and glandular puberulent on stems distally and on inflorescences. | Herbs annual, villous, also glandular puberulent distally. |
Stems | erect, with multiple branches, rarely with 1 stem, to 70 cm. |
usually several, decumbent, rarely 1 erect stem, 30–60 cm. |
Leaves | 1–6 × 0.4–2 cm; petiole 0–3 cm, distal ones sessile; blade lanceolate or narrowly ovate, base round or truncate, margins sparsely denticulate, apex long-acuminate. |
1–8 × 0.2–1.1 cm; petiole 0–3 cm; blade narrowly lanceolate-elliptic, base cuneate or subcordate, margins denticulate, apex acute. |
Flowers | opening near sunrise; floral tube (1.8–)2–3.8 mm; sepals (1.5–)3.2–8.5 mm; petals yellow, usually with 1 or 2 red dots basally, (2.5–)5–10.5 mm; episepalous filaments (1.2–)2.5–4.5 mm, epipetalous filaments (0.8–)1.5–2.5 mm, anthers (0.4–)0.8–1.5 mm, less than 5% of pollen grains 4- or 5-pored; style (2.5–)4.5–7.5 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis. |
opening near sunrise; floral tube 1.5–4 m; sepals 1.7–3.4 mm; petals yellow, with 1 or 2 red dots basally, 2.5–5.5 mm; episepalous filaments 2–2.8 mm, epipetalous filaments 1–1.7 mm, anthers 0.7–1.2 mm, less than 5% of pollen grains 4- or 5-pored; style 2.8–4.5 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis. |
Capsules | straight or 1–2-coiled spiral, subterete in living material, 4-angled when dry, 13–23 × 0.9–1.2 mm. |
usually loosely 1-coiled, conspicuously 4-angled in living material, 13–20 × 1.8–2.2 mm. |
Seeds | 0.7–1.1 mm. |
0.7–0.8 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
= 14. |
Camissoniopsis confusa |
Camissoniopsis lewisii |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Jun(–Jul). | Flowering Mar–May(–Sep). |
Habitat | Dry inland slopes, chaparral. | Open sandy and clayey grasslands, coastal dunes and beaches. |
Elevation | 300–2000 m. (1000–6600 ft.) | 0–300 m. (0–1000 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA
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CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | Camissoniopsis confusa occurs in California from the La Panza Range of central San Luis Obispo County south through the Coast Ranges to the San Bernardino Mountains and southern San Diego County; also in central Arizona (westernmost Gila, Maricopa, and northern Pinal counties). P. H. Raven (1969) determined C. confusa to be self-compatible and primarily autogamous. The species apparently is a tetraploid derived via hybridization between two diploid (2n = 14) species, C. hirtella and C. pallida. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Camissoniopsis lewisii occurs from Point Dume and the Los Angeles Basin, Los Angeles County, south to Cardon Grande at the northern edge of Baja California Sur. P. H. Raven (1969) determined C. lewisii to be self-compatible and primarily autogamous, and suggested that this coastal Camissoniopsis may have been derived more or less directly from coastal populations of C. bistorta. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. |
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Synonyms | Camissonia confusa | Camissonia lewisii |
Name authority | (P. H. Raven) 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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