Camissoniopsis ignota |
Camissoniopsis intermedia |
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jurupa hills sun cup |
intermediate sun cups, intermediate suncup |
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Habit | Herbs annual, strigillose, usually also sparsely villous, often also glandular puberulent distally. | Herbs annual, appearing greenish, moderately villous, often also glandular puberulent on stems distally and on inflorescences. |
Stems | arising from base, usually decumbent, rarely with only 1, erect stem, 10–55 cm. |
erect, usually with 1+ ascending branches from basal rosette, 30–60 cm. |
Leaves | 1.5–7 × 0.3–1.3 cm; petiole (0–)0.2–2.5 cm, petiolate distally; blade narrowly lanceolate, lanceolate, or narrowly elliptic, base attenuate, margins serrulate, apex acute. |
1–12 × 0.2–1.7 cm; petiole 0–1 cm, distal ones sessile; blade lanceolate to narrowly ovate, base cuneate to truncate, basal and proximal cauline often attenuate, margins denticulate, apex acute. |
Flowers | opening near sunrise; floral tube (1.1–)1.8–3 mm; sepals 2.6–5.5 mm; petals yellow, sometimes red-dotted near base, (3–)4–8 mm; episepalous filaments (1.2–)2.5–3.6 mm, epipetalous filaments (1–)1.3–2 mm, anthers (0.6–)0.8–1.6 mm, less than 5% of pollen grains 4- or 5-pored; style (3–)4.5–7 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis. |
opening near sunrise; floral tube 1.2–2 mm; sepals 1–2.5 mm; petals yellow, with 1 or 2 red dots basally, 1.5–3.5(–4.5) mm; episepalous filaments 0.8–1.5 mm, epipetalous filaments 0.5–0.9 mm, anthers 0.4–0.5 mm, less than 5% of pollen grains 4- or 5-pored; style 2–3.5 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis. |
Capsules | very slender, usually much contorted, irregularly to 5-coiled, rarely simply flexuous, terete in living material, 4-angled when dry, 20–30 × 0.8–1 mm. |
straight or 1-coiled spiral, subterete in living material, 4-angled when dry, 13–25 × 1.1–1.2 mm. |
Seeds | 1.2–1.3 mm. |
0.7–1.1 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
= 28. |
Camissoniopsis ignota |
Camissoniopsis intermedia |
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Phenology | Flowering (Jan–)Mar–Apr(–Aug). | Flowering Mar–Jun(–Sep). |
Habitat | Clay or sandy soils, flats and slopes in coastal sage scrub or chaparral, sandy soils in mountains. | Disturbed brushy slopes, on burns. |
Elevation | 100–1100(–1500) m. (300–3600(–4900) ft.) | (150–)300–800 m. ((500–)1000–2600 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | Camissoniopsis ignota is most common in clay fields and slopes at low elevations, but occasional on sandy soil and higher in the mountains in the Coast Ranges and bordering valleys from Yolo County, California, south to the southern end of the Sierra San Miguel, in Baja California, usually away from the immediate coast and barely reaching the margins of the desert. P. H. Raven (1969) determined C. ignota to be self-compatible and primarily autogamous. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Camissoniopsis intermedia occurs from Lake and Yolo counties (where rare) south in the Coast Ranges of California to the western San Gabriel Mountains, western Riverside and San Diego counties, and south in Baja California to the south end of the Sierra San Miguel; also on Santa Catalina and Santa Cruz islands. P. H. Raven (1969) determined C. intermedia to be self-compatible and primarily autogamous. The species is apparently a tetraploid derived via hybridization between two diploid (2n = 14) species, C. hirtella and C. micrantha. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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 micrantha var. ignota, Camissonia ignota, O. hirta var. ignota, O. ignota | Camissonia intermedia |
Name authority | (Jepson) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 205. (2007) | (P. H. Raven) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 205. (2007) |
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