Camissoniopsis lewisii |
Camissoniopsis luciae |
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Lewis' evening-primrose |
Santa Lucia sun cup |
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| Habit | Herbs annual, villous, also glandular puberulent distally. | Herbs annual, villous throughout. |
| Stems | usually several, decumbent, rarely 1 erect stem, 30–60 cm. |
erect or ascending, 20–50 cm. |
| Leaves | 1–8 × 0.2–1.1 cm; petiole 0–3 cm; blade narrowly lanceolate-elliptic, base cuneate or subcordate, margins denticulate, apex acute. |
1.3–5.5 × 1.2–2.5 cm; sessile; blade lanceolate to narrowly oblong, base rounded or truncate, sometimes cuneate, margins sparsely denticulate, apex acuminate to, sometimes, rounded. |
| Flowers | 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. |
opening near sunrise; floral tube 2–3 mm; sepals 2.5–4.5 mm; petals yellow, with 1 red dot basally, 4–7 mm, sometimes with a tooth arising from emarginate apex; episepalous filaments 4-pored; s2–6 mm, epipetalous filaments 0.8–1.6 mm, anthers 0.4–1 mm, 25–60% of pollen grains tyle 3–6 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis. |
| Capsules | usually loosely 1-coiled, conspicuously 4-angled in living material, 13–20 × 1.8–2.2 mm. |
straight or 1.5–2+-coiled spiral, subterete in living material, obscurely 4-angled when dry, 15–20 × 1.3–2 mm. |
| Seeds | 0.7–0.8 mm. |
1.3–1.5 mm. |
| 2n | = 14. |
= 42. |
Camissoniopsis lewisii |
Camissoniopsis luciae |
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| Phenology | Flowering Mar–May(–Sep). | Flowering Apr–May(–Jul). |
| Habitat | Open sandy and clayey grasslands, coastal dunes and beaches. | Openings in chaparral. |
| Elevation | 0–300 m. [0–1000 ft.] | 300–1400 m. [1000–4600 ft.] |
| Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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CA |
| Discussion | 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.) |
Camissoniopsis luciae is known from the Santa Lucia Mountains, Monterey County, and scattered southward to San Benito, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara counties. P. H. Raven (1969) determined C. luciae to be self-compatible and primarily autogamous. The species is a hexaploid that parallels the widespread diploid C. hirtella in the variable notching of its petals. Presumably, it has been derived from the tetraploid C. intermedia (2n = 28) and the diploid C. hirtella (2n = 14), but it is rather easily separated from both by the absence of glandular hairs in the inflorescence, relatively large flowers, and pollen characteristics. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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| Synonyms | Camissonia lewisii | Camissonia luciae |
| Name authority | (P. H. Raven) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 205. (2007) | (P. H. Raven) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 205. (2007) |
| Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. |
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